# Examples of mansplaining **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036 "2021-05-13T19:54:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/1 "2021-05-13T19:54:20Z")
This article is pretty funny, tho I really wish they had included closer to the 200 stories they claim to have recieved; maybe it’ll be a weekly series or something, tho. > **[From periods to powerlifting: Over 200 people told us what’s been mansplained...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/gender-identity/from-periods-to-powerlifting-over-200-people-told-us-whats-been-mansplained-to-them/)** > > We asked our Instagram followers to share their most egregious examples of mansplaining I couldn’t pick a favorite but this makes me chuckle: > [@](#): > > “My own feelings towards women. I said I’m a lesbian, he explained that was wrong.” As does: > [@](#): > > “bike ped infrastructure. I’m the leading researcher on funding for it. in the country.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/2 "2021-05-13T19:57:09Z")
Let me explain mansplaining to you… ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/3 "2021-05-13T20:08:13Z")
My wife’s aunt, her mom’s sister, is a fairly prominent geneticist. I’ve seen guys with no science training explain to her how DNA works. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/4 "2021-05-13T20:17:02Z")
One really good one is a prominent kipper (member of UKIP, a UK far-right organisation) trying to mansplain the fall of the Roman Empire to Mary Beard. She’s a world-renowned expert in that area, and she was remarkably reasonable in her responses to him. > **[Ukip Donor Mansplains Fall Of Roman Empire To Classicist Mary Beard](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ukip-arron-banks-mary-beard-rome_uk_5845c2d5e4b07ac7244927f6)** > > Arron Banks: 'You don't have a monopoly on history!' ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/5 "2021-05-13T20:41:48Z")
> “My family’s native language that he learned on HelloTalk for three months.” I think this one is both mansplaining and Dunning-Kruger, in that the guy thought studying something for a few months made him an expert. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/6 "2021-05-13T20:53:44Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Let me explain mansplaining to you… [Jimmy Kimmel has already done that](https://youtu.be/f1fS19TnV0U?t=125) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/7 "2021-05-13T21:06:54Z")
Why did the mansplainer drown in a puddle? …it was a well, actually. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/8 "2021-05-13T23:00:09Z")
My favorite was a few years ago when a NASA astronaut tweeted “My first venture \>63,000’, the space equivalent zone, where water spontaneously boils! Luckily I’m suited!” And a random doofus responded “Wouldn’t say it’s spontaneous. The pressure in the room got below the vapor pressure of the water at room temp. Simple thermo.” Lots of good responses followed, such as “Please explain science in more detail to the tweeting astronaut.” (note: “spontaneous” in thermodynamics means a process that occurs without an outside source of energy, so her statement was both colloquially and technically correct) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/9 "2021-05-13T23:54:42Z")
So many examples though could just as easily be 'splaining not mansplaining. How do you know if the man in question _wouldn’t_ have over-explained if it were a man? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/10 "2021-05-14T00:12:12Z")
Why don’t you explain how that works? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/11 "2021-05-14T00:14:39Z")
Because there’s men here. If it were only women, I would. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/12 "2021-05-14T00:18:33Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > So many examples though could just as easily be 'splaining not mansplaining. How do you know if the man in question _wouldn’t_ have over-explained if it were a man? Manscusing. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/13 "2021-05-14T00:30:36Z")
In this case, it’s just my usual pitiful whining. It would only have been man’scusing if I were speaking to an audience of women. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/14 "2021-05-14T00:49:06Z")
The 2 worst splainers I know are woman. They’re equal opportunity splainers - doesn’t matter who you are or what you know, they’ll splain it. Usually the splainers are men though. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/15 "2021-05-14T02:14:57Z")
My son, while leaving his three month daughter with my wife and me for 3 hours, took 10 minutes to explain to us the proper way to burp a baby. My daughter-in-law just rolled her eyes and said, “You know they had three kids and didn’t kill any of you.” ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/16 "2021-05-14T02:26:21Z")
And my wife spent ages explaining how to look after our first child to my mother and mother-in-law. My mother was a pediatric nurse. My mother-in-law was a nurse, then became a teacher’s aide in a pre-school. It’s a new parent thing. Not a man thing. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/17 "2021-05-14T03:43:29Z")
I have 16 years of experience in my elite job. A fresh out of school plus a year or two of not super relevant experience guy produced work that I pointed out problems with. I agreed to meet to discuss needed revisios. Once on the video call, he thanked me for the opportunity to explain why what he’d done was correct. He did essentially the same to someone much higher than me (also female) who’d raised the same questions. It seemed like he eventually grasped that he needed to make changes, but, it turns out, he actually had learned nothing from his opportunity to meet with us and revised practically nothing. Now the project isn’t his anymore. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/18 "2021-05-14T03:51:30Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > So many examples though could just as easily be 'splaining not mansplaining. How do you know if the man in question _wouldn’t_ have over-explained if it were a man? Are they a Doper? Because you know we will explain (or nitpick) anything to anyone in excruciating depth and with unsettling vigor. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/19 "2021-05-14T03:58:55Z")
That’s why I like this place. It gives me a place to do that without annoying normal people. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2021, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036/20 "2021-05-14T04:26:24Z")
I don’t care if this is the absolute truth-Can we ban @TriPolar anyway? 😁 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-mansplaining/942036.md?page=2)