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Married Geeks: Resisting "Mansplaining" to your wife

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I'm sure we've all been accused of "Mansplaining" by the wife

What's an example of a time where you had to bite your tongue when your wife asks you an incredibly stupid question?

Last night I'm watching SEA/TOR ALCS Game 1.  She joins me and asks if all the M's players are switch hitters.  I casually reply that nope, while some are switch hitters most are only left handed or right handed.

She then asked why are they wearing a patch that says "Switch" then?

She was referring to the "Nintendo Switch 2" sponsorship patch that is on their unis.

I think I deserve an award for not laughing and simply explained what it was.

 

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35 minutes ago, DonS said:

 

What's an example of a time where you had to bite your tongue when your wife asks you an incredibly stupid question?

Every time we're doing some project around the house and she asks me why we can't do something that breaks the laws of physics.

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1 hour ago, DonS said:

 had to bite your tongue

 

I can’t bite my tongue. CAN SIZE ????

:mad:

 

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When I ask stupid questions, my husband just smiles and goes, "You're so pretty." 

 

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17 hours ago, DonS said:

I'm sure we've all been accused of "Mansplaining" by the wife

What's an example of a time where you had to bite your tongue when your wife asks you an incredibly stupid question?

Last night I'm watching SEA/TOR ALCS Game 1.  She joins me and asks if all the M's players are switch hitters.  I casually reply that nope, while some are switch hitters most are only left handed or right handed.

She then asked why are they wearing a patch that says "Switch" then?

She was referring to the "Nintendo Switch 2" sponsorship patch that is on their unis.

I think I deserve an award for not laughing and simply explained what it was.

 

Wait til a team gets sponsored by “BJ’s Wholesale Club”!

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17 hours ago, DonS said:

I'm sure we've all been accused of "Mansplaining" by the wife

What's an example of a time where you had to bite your tongue when your wife asks you an incredibly stupid question?

Last night I'm watching SEA/TOR ALCS Game 1.  She joins me and asks if all the M's players are switch hitters.  I casually reply that nope, while some are switch hitters most are only left handed or right handed.

She then asked why are they wearing a patch that says "Switch" then?

She was referring to the "Nintendo Switch 2" sponsorship patch that is on their unis.

I think I deserve an award for not laughing and simply explained what it was.

 

My wife would have to be willing to listen to something I said in order for me to be guilty of mansplaining. There's no point in explaining anything to someone that already knows everything.

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17 hours ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Never, my Wife is always right and I'm always wrong. Just ask her 

Black women can be pushy. 

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17 hours ago, Thornton Melon said:

Every time we're doing some project around the house and she asks me why we can't do something that breaks the laws of physics.

:lol: 

My wife is an engineer, and also loves sports.  I basically married myself with b00bies.  

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I had a 5 minute explanation of the fair catch just this last weekend with Misses General during the IU Oregon game. She just said that doesn’t make sense and lost interest.

Glad she didn’t ask about the NFL kickoff.

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Sometimes, my wife gets uppity and makes a comment that I don't cook my own meals. I tell her that while I CAN cook, I don't prefer to do it. I then remind her that she literally has no idea how to do any of the things I do.

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5 minutes ago, lickin_starfish said:

Sometimes, my wife gets uppity and makes a comment that I don't cook my own meals. I tell her that while I CAN cook, I don't prefer to do it. I then remind her that she literally has no idea how to do any of the things I do.

She licks my starfish pretty damn good. Keep her. 

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1 hour ago, TheNewGirl said:

When I ask stupid questions, my husband just smiles and goes, "You're so pretty." 

 

You don’t find that condescending? 

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11 minutes ago, MikeMatt said:

You don’t find that condescending? 

No, we've been married 25 years. It's kind of a joke at this point. 

FWIW, when he says stupid things I also tell him he's pretty...or I tell him it's a good thing that he's so tall with a big d!ck. 🤷‍♀️

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2 minutes ago, TheNewGirl said:

I tell him it's a good thing that he's so tall with a big d!ck. 🤷‍♀️

DAMMIT!!!! Why didn't anyone tell me this was the secret to getting along with the ladies?

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My wife is the one that over-explains simple concepts.  In fact, she gets mad at me because I give her the speed it up sign when she's explaining some situation and is like, "Then I said... Then she said... Then I said..." After a few minutes of that, I usually say, "I get the gist. I don't need the play-by-play account," and she freaks the F out.

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8 minutes ago, TheNewGirl said:

No, we've been married 25 years. It's kind of a joke at this point. 

FWIW, when he says stupid things I also tell him he's pretty...or I tell him it's a good thing that he's so tall with a big d!ck. 🤷‍♀️

Thankfully I stopped reading when you said you called him pretty. Then the rest gets quoted. :head slap:

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Just now, MikeMatt said:

Thankfully I stopped reading when you said you called him pretty. Then the rest gets quoted. :head slap:

Well, I only married him for his...height. ;)

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I never understood. Is mansplaining just answering a question when a woman asks one?  I just assumed it was a fake term made up by pronoun using women who hate men, to be honest. 

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19 hours ago, DonS said:

Last night I'm watching SEA/TOR ALCS Game 1.  She joins me and asks if all the M's players are switch hitters.  I casually reply that nope, while some are switch hitters most are only left handed or right handed.

She then asked why are they wearing a patch that says "Switch" then?

 

 

I would actually be very impressed with her line of thinking, assuming she knows nothing about sports. As dumb as it sounds, to see every player is wearing a patch that says switch and to associate it with the concept of switch hitting... at the very least it shows some effort on her part

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12 minutes ago, WhiteWonder said:

I never understood. Is mansplaining just answering a question when a woman asks one?  I just assumed it was a fake term made up by pronoun using women who hate men, to be honest. 

mansplaining
/ˈmanˌsplāniNG/
  1. the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
    "your response is classic mansplaining"

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12 minutes ago, TheNewGirl said:

 

mansplaining
/ˈmanˌsplāniNG/
  1. the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
    "your response is classic mansplaining"

 

but the idea of it being patronizing always seems a bit subjective. 

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20 minutes ago, TheNewGirl said:

 

mansplaining
/ˈmanˌsplāniNG/
  1. the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending  or patronizing.
    "your response is classic mansplaining"

Hey !! I used a word in the English language right !!!! Alert the media !

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5 minutes ago, WhiteWonder said:

 

but the idea of it being patronizing always seems a bit subjective. 

If you're more knowledgeable about a topic than a woman (doesn't matter what it is) and she makes a comment, can you explain it to her without sounding superior because you know more about it? I would think a lot of men have an issue with not sounding superior about certain man-centric topics (sports being a good one). 

In the OP, there really wasn't a need to mansplain, since she asked about switch hitting; and why were they all wearing patches. She thought it was to do with the players and the game, not an advertisement. 

 

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7 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Your husband likes "pushy" 🏳️‍🌈

You shouldn’t let Rasputia push you around like that, Norbit.

 

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46 minutes ago, TheNewGirl said:

If you're more knowledgeable about a topic than a woman person (doesn't matter what it is) and she they make a comment, can you explain it to her them without sounding superior because you know more about it? I would think a lot of men people have an issue with not sounding superior about certain topics (sports being a good one). 

 

i think this idea is true with the edits i made as well. as some people have a hard time not sounding superior in any situation when it's regarding a topic they are well versed in. okay, it might be a little more heightened in men vs women, but i guess my point goes back to feeing like the term was created by the raging pronoun liberal women. 

if someones question on a topic annoys you because you know all about that topic, you may come off condescending or patronizing in your explanation no matter what. 

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1 hour ago, TheNewGirl said:

 

mansplaining
/ˈmanˌsplāniNG/
  1. the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
    "your response is classic mansplaining"

There are plenty of women out there who think the simple act of a man explaining anything to a woman is automatically "mansplaining".

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12 minutes ago, WhiteWonder said:

i think this idea is true with the edits i made as well. as some people have a hard time not sounding superior in any situation when it's regarding a topic they are well versed in. okay, it might be a little more heightened in men vs women, but i guess my point goes back to feeing like the term was created by the raging pronoun liberal women. 

if someones question on a topic annoys you because you know all about that topic, you may come off condescending or patronizing in your explanation no matter what. 

I agree with your statement. 

And you're probably right about the origin of the term. 

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