30 Times Women Were Mansplained The Dumbest Things, Shared In This TikTok Trend (New Stories)

I had a male coworker argue with me one time about how I couldn't work the 24 hour on call because the staff quarters only had showers and not tubs, and women need tubs, and how can I respond at a moment's notice when I'm dealing with my menstrual cycle. It was all very unprofessional. Keep in mind this is a very religious person that was married to his wife when they were 16. They were only 19 at this time, but they lived a very traditional life. She was a stay at home wife. Eventually, I just asked him "Hey, why don't you just tell me and explain to me, why I need a bathtub for my menstrual cycle?" Long story short, this man's wife told him that women have their menstrual cycle for three weeks. And the only time you can have sex is for a couple days when you're ready to receive God's gift. I'm assuming when you're ovulating. For the other three weeks, women need to lay in the bathtub for two hours every night and be left the f**k alone so she can let the blood out. To f**k with her game I told him that God looks down on women working, so our periods are cut down to only one day and we deal with it on our days off. Educate f**king kids.

About a year ago my mom had been briefly dating this guy and on the night that I met him, he picked me and my mom up in his truck. And it was a pretty chilly night. It was like January or February. My mom was feeling chilly. She was sitting in the front seat, so she decided to turn off the AC. I sh**t you not. He decided to explain to her that AC in fact stood for air conditioning. And that even if she was cold, she was not allowed to turn off the AC because that means that the air in the car would not be properly conditioned. Word for word, he explained that to her and me in the backseat. My mother has a PhD. Not that that even has anything to do with this, but I was flaming with rage in the backseat, and she broke up with him shortly thereafter.

I was 19, stuck in the car with my dad on a trip and having a hellish period. So I happen to mention how bad the cramps were. And my father, a normally, you know, palatable aging hippie with a master's degree in science, turns to me and says, 'Maybe if you worshiped your uterus, it would be nicer to you.' Excuse me, Jim.

A man once told me that Jeff Bezos didn't own any stock because all of his net worth was tied up in his ownership of Amazon. A share of stock is ownership of a company. He effectively owns Amazon because he owns like 35 million shares with Amazon stock. That's what stock is. That's what it is.

When I was working at Spencer's a guy came in and he was looking at our jewelry cases. And he noticed, at the time we get these little at home, do it yourself ear piercing kits and he tried talking to me about how horrible those are for your ears and like "That's not the proper way to do piercings." I was like, "Well yeah, I know but I'm just paid to sell the products. I've no saying what we carry here. I just don't have a say in that." And he tried talking to me about the proper way to do piercings with clams and hollow needles and how it's more like a hole punch and all that stuff. And I was, "Well, yeah, I know." And it's grown man who had no visible body modifications, piercings, tattoos, anything, was looking at the metal hanging out of my f**king face. And he goes, "I don't really think you understand what I'm trying to say. I have a buddy who does piercings and I'm always down at a shop and I'm seeing him do this all day long." You're right. I just like don't know about piercings.

One time I was at my husband's work function and one of his co workers asked me what I do for a living. I said, "Oh, I'm getting my PhD." He goes, "Oh, what are you writing on?" I say, "Oh, I actually do sci fi adaptations of the canon, mostly comic book adaptations of like the "Odyssey In Outer Space", that kind of thing." It's kind of my line. He goes, "Oh, you must be really excited for the Octavia Butler comics that are coming out soon." I go "What?" And he goes, "Octavia Butler was a really famous sci fi writer. She wrote a lot of Afrofuturism, I don't know have you heard a 'Parable Of The Sower' or 'Kindred' Those are kind of her most famous works and you should really check them out. They sound relevant to your work." I said "I don't, do you possibly mean adaptations of her work?" And he goes "No, I think they're gonna be original comics that Octavia Butler is gonna be involved in writing." And I go "I don't think so." And this man proceeds to really double down, he really thinks Octavia Butler's coming out with comics, so eventually interrupted I go "Sir, Octavia Butler passed away in 2006."

So, I have an accent and when guys asked me where I'm from and I say Iceland a lot of them will reply with something like here's the thing about Iceland and tell me a fact about my own country.

Oh, yes, please. I'm a comedian and I used to do a joke about my bra size. And I would say G42. To make the joke work, I said G42. Okay. And I had a male comedian, an old male comedian, come up to me and he was like, "You're doing it all wrong, because like, no one understands what you're saying. Do you know anything about bras. You know, bra size?" Do I know bras? Um, yes, I do. And then he just went on to say that no one understood it because I didn't say 42G I said G42. It was ridiculous. I mean, to be honest, I think he was just mad because my boobs are bigger than his like, that's jealousy.

So a few weeks ago, I was on a date in Colorado with one of my friends. And I was explaining my van built to him and telling him all about the work that I did on it and my solar setup. And I have 750 watts of solar power available to me on my van, which was a very intentional choice. It's a huge investment. It's, I knew what I was doing, wanted to run sewing machines, all the stuff that I need to work and potentially be able to install an industrial sewing machine in it one day. Anyways, this man gets up from across the patio comes over interrupts our conversation to ask me if I understand that's a lot of solar power. And if I was aware, because it was just so crazy to him that I have that much solar power, and he just wanted to make sure that I knew that that was a lot. Okay.

Okay? Do you guys know that TikTok trend where people are like, "Oh, did you spend all day scrolling on TikTok? Or did you like spend your time curating an algorithm blah blah blah." Okay, so I posted a video like that format and had this guy leave this comment "you stole this content, you need to credit the original creator." And then he tags this other creator who gives career advice. But, I made the trend. I literally posted it, May 5th, I mean, I'm really not mad. I have a couple accounts that steal all my ideas. Some literally word for word, but that's how TikTok works. I don't really care about getting credit. It's just funny when people get mad at me for not crediting somebody who, copied my thing.