'We went through several rounds of this until I just gave up and walked away.'
I’m an award-winning writer and editor living in New York City, where I currently work at BuzzFeed as the Senior Lifestyle Editor. Even though a woman has the credentials to expertly know something, it doesn't mean a man won't try to explain it to her for some reason.
So when Reddit usersubreddit:"What's the craziest/weirdest thing a guy has tried to mansplain to you?" so many answered with wild stories. Here's what they said below: "My ex-husband tried to mansplain to me about a story he had never read, by an author whose work he had never read. Whom I had written papers on in college..." "When I was pregnant, I told my stream I was going to get a bagel because I needed to eat. A guy said, 'Don't forget the cream cheese, the baby needs to eat too!' ??????? Wot ??????? Was the baby not going to get any of the bagel unless there was cream cheese??? I still don't understand this one.""I once used the word 'macabre' in a sentence during a stream. A man in chat said, 'Wow, great use of the word 'macabre.' Then he proceeded to explain to me what the word meant, even though he had just commended me for using it properly???" "How flossing doesn’t actually work, and that he does all of his own dental work. I was in dental assisting school at the time, while he was tattooing people out of his house." "My own university project that I coded, built, and modelled. Computer science was an... interesting experience from a sexism point of view to say the least." "That I need to travel. At that point, I had lived in seven states, traveled to 48 states and 30 countries. I wasn't even born in America. But thanks? By the way, he had only been to one country outside where he grew up." "I've had a French man argue with me about what it's like to live in the Deep South. He had never been there. I was born and raised in Mississippi." "My friend and I were gearing up in the parking lot of a ski resort, and we were talking about sunscreen . The guy in the car next to us started mansplaining different types of sunscreen to us and finished with, 'I would know, I just finished medical school.' We thought it was a little strange since it was January and medical schools typically end in May/June, but perhaps he was on a different timeline, so nevertheless we said, 'Oh, cool, where are you going for residency?' He looked at us like a deer in the headlights. I think he meant 'medical school' to mean 'medical assistant school.' My friend and I are both board-certified attending physicians." "He tried to mansplain insurance to me and argue that the specific endorsements I requested did not exist. I was a licensed insurance professional at a corporate risk management company. Not just a worker, I was a department head. After he rambled for 40 minutes, I told him to open a web browser and enter the ISO form number, which immediately pulled up the endorsement he just argued didn't exist. There was a long pause, then he said, 'I'll send it to you by the end of business today,' and hung up." "I have a history degree. I’m planning a trip to the UK. I made a post about it on another account and specified I was visiting England. I mentioned my history degree in the post, since seeing Roman ruins is one of the trip's goals. Some dude hopped in my inbox to explain that the UK is made up of multiple countries. When I said I knew that he called me a bitch." "My job. I’m a dancer at a nightclub. I wasn’t doing it 'right' but somehow got him to spend hundreds without him realizing the game." "I mentioned that I was on birth control pills to regulate my periods, but also used condoms for health reasons . He tried to explain to me that I didn't need both, because the condoms also worked as birth control. When I said I used them to prevent STDs, he said, 'Drop the Pill then.' I explained that I needed the Pill to regulate my painful periods, and he said again, 'But then you don't need the condoms.' We went through several rounds of this until I just gave up and walked away.""I was at a parent-teacher night one time and heard some dude explain to the teacher how her last name is 'actually pronounced.' My partner and I watched it unfold, completely agape. Afterwards, we approached the teacher. She just held her hand up and said, 'I know. I know.'" And finally,"How to delete something in Microsoft Word. I then mansplained how Excel works. He got really offended and said, 'That was unnecessarily condescending.' I said, 'So was telling me how to use the backspace key.' He went beet red and never spoke to me again."Have a mansplaining story you want to share? Tell us what happened, either in the comments or in the anonymous form below:
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