i just saw a fb post where a man was arguing with a woman about the best way to make macarons and he kept insisting that she was wrong, and then eventually he was like “I’ve never personally made macarons, but if you think about it what I’m saying makes sense, i’m simply stating the obvious. i’m sure there are plenty of youtube tutorials that would show you the same thing.” and the woman replied by linking him to her instagram business page and she makes fuckin macaron towers for parties for a living and i’ve been laughing about it for a solid 5 minutes.
Men automatically assume they’re more of an expert on something than any woman on account of their dicks. I’ve never met such an ignorant and narcissistic creature as a male
I’ll never forget a time when a fb friend of mine posted that she’s on her way to hospital to give birth. Women commented with “good luck” and other encouraging messages. A man’s comment was advice on how to give birth.
You have got to be kidding me
So I was talking about Jekyll & Hyde (the book) at a writer’s museum while we were looking at an Robert Louis Stevenson exhibit. I was giving my take on Jekyll, and my brother tried to counter it. I countered back easily, and then he said “well I’ve never read the book”
My dude………..stop
my ex, whose baking experience was pretty much limited to frying premade biscuit dough in boy scouts to make ‘donuts’, would constantly try to correct me or give me advice on baking
i’m a fucking pastry chef
met a dude at a party who was talking about physics and asked if i’d ever listened to any online physics lectures bc he listened to all of this one series and they were so helpful and maybe i could learn some physics too
i have a degree in physics
and am a published coauthor in astrophysics
the best part is that the woman who invented the term ‘mansplaining’ (her name is Rebecca Solnit and i highly recommend her collection of essays) came up with it when she was at a party one night and a man tried to explain a book to her, and wouldn’t let her speak long enough for her to tell him that
she wrote the bloody book he was mansplaining to her
You know I have plenty examples of this but that last one takes the cake so imma just let it be.
Tag: mansplaining
i just saw a fb post where a man was arguing with a woman about the best way to make macarons and he kept insisting that she was wrong, and then eventually he was like “I’ve never personally made macarons, but if you think about it what I’m saying makes sense, i’m simply stating the obvious. i’m sure there are plenty of youtube tutorials that would show you the same thing.” and the woman replied by linking him to her instagram business page and she makes fuckin macaron towers for parties for a living and i’ve been laughing about it for a solid 5 minutes.
The flowchart we shouldn’t need but desperately do.
oh god i wish i had this chart for the man the other day who “explained” my own master’s degree to me and told me that Morgan Freeman was a famous black actor
I’m gonna be completely honest here, and I’m probably gonna get shanked for this… but I hate the concept of mansplaining, mainly because… well, I’m a man and I like to explain things. But it’s not about sexism, I just like the sound of my own voice and I love teaching people about something and seeing the cogs in their heads turning as they realize “I never knew that!”.
Maybe I should become a teacher?
There is nothing wrong explaining things or teaching others when asked to do so! 🙂
What is wrong is being a know it all about a topic you personally don’t know much about to a person who does.
Like the other day, my BA and MA are in globalization and Development. After I told this man what I studied, he “explained” it to me instead as if I did not specialize in it. He did not let me talk about my own knowledge or even ask me questions. He just. Wrongfully explained globalization to me. His own knowledge was in a completely different field as well. So yeah. That was annoying and very rude of him.
Yesterday I asked my Korean supervisor a thing about Korean language because I was curious and he went on this really interesting tangent about Korean linguistics. This was fine because I solicited this conversation.
So, yes. Please continue to teach others, but don’t assume people don’t know things. You can always phrase your teaching moment into a question first such as “did you know abc does xyz?” And depending on the response, continue from there!
Because let’s face it, everyone loves to learn, but no one likes being talked down to.
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