“There Was A Long Pause”: 71 Embarrassing Moments Featuring Guys Mansplaining To No End

A (white) man tried to tell me that it's offensive to refer to myself as half Black, and I should instead be saying I'm half African American. Mansplaining and whitesplaining at the same time. It's like the world's worst BOGO. 🙃.

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.

I had a man in the gym ask me what “i think” feminism means. i said equality of genders. he said i was wrong, then pulls out his phone and loudly asks chatgpt in the middle of the gym what feminism means. and it responded with exactly what i said.

The weather in Scotland.

I moved from Wisconsin to Scotland 11 years ago. When I went back for Christmas the first time, my cousin’s boyfriend asked me how I liked living here. I said I really loved it except for the weather.

Him: Oh, why?

Me: Well, it rains a lot, which is kind of depressing.

Him: It doesn’t actually rain that much in Scotland.

Me: What? Haha. You’re joking?

Him: No, it doesn’t rain in Scotland.

Me: Um. It rains in Scotland all the time. The country is kind of known for it, in fact. It’s rained basically every day since I’ve moved there.

Him: Nah, you’re mistaken.

Me: You think I’m mistaken about…knowing whether it’s raining outside or not?

Him: Yeah. Because it doesn’t rain much in Scotland, because of the Gulf Stream.

Me: …The Gulf Stream is literally what makes it rain so much. I’m sorry, have you ever actually been to Scotland?

Him: No, I just know a lot about weather.

Me: So, sorry, you’re telling me that you, as someone who has never been to Scotland, know more about the weather in that country, *where I live*, better than I do?

Him: Yeah.

Me: Excuse me, I need a drink.

The pronunciation of my own name .

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 dept 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 end of business today." And hung up.

That women cant drink beer because it will give them a yeast infection.

And hummus was actually cheese, not chickpeas.

I have a pretty strong dislike for Sigmund Freud, and once in conversation I made a joke about him. A man that was there then launches into a spiel about Freud, how his work is misunderstood and misrepresented, how his contributions outweigh his eccentricities, etc.

A lot of what he said was factually incorrect, and I told him that. He then proceeded to try to argue with me.

He did not know I have a PhD in Clinical Psychology. It did not go well for him.

I’m a former 911 dispatcher and my husband tried to mansplain how cops would respond and handle a situation and he was wrong. I was stunned at the audacity.

Edit: he’s an electrician.

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 in college on...

When it was a fairly new concept, “mansplaining” came up in a meeting at work. A woman in the room was explaining to our boss what it meant when one of the men in the room interrupted, starting off by saying “What it really means is…“ and he proceeded to mansplain mansplaining to all of us. (This was not a joke, and he did not understand why we were all laughing.).

Once saw a brit guy explaining this woman how to pronounce some words in Spanish correctly. Only issue she's from Spain, born and raised there all her life.

My job. I’m a dancer at a night club. I wasn’t doing it “right” but somehow got him to spend 100s without him realizing the game.

How women shouldn't be in the military "because periods are unhygienic".

A guy tried to mansplain investing to me. We each pulled up our Robinhood portfolios. My return was 30% higher than his.

I mentioned that I was on birth control pills to regulate my periods, but also used condoms for health reasons (I was not in a relationship, so any s*x I was having was casual).

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 went "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.

Edit: "walked away" was figurative here, this was an online interaction. Dude wasn't trying to f**k me, we never even met.

I was sitting on the gyms floor resting between sets and a guy came to explain me that I shouldnt do that because the floor is dirty, and then proceeded to explain to me how the floor gets dirty: people walk all over it, they come from the street. I was insisting that I wanted to rest and I didn't care and he kept explaining me why the floor was dirty and shouldn't do it for 5 minutes straight. I finally told him that I had a neurological disorder that made me fall sometimes and I preferred to sit on the dirty floor than to break my head against it, he finally left me alone.

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 at the time.

My native language that he doesn’t speak.

A pilot I was dating once tried to mansplain to me that the Shakespearian play “Much Ado About Nothing” is a musical (it isn’t) despite my background in theater.

He also assumed he needed to explain how airplanes fly as though I’d never taken a physics class before.

He was a bit of a tool.