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Completely forgot about this bowl. But, I know mansplaining can’t be solved. So, come on, ladies. Let’s keep ourselves laughing and our eyes rolling. What ‘splaining have you had lately?

I got hired to be the SME on a particular tech platform at my current company. I have more experience on it than my boss does, yet during a code review, he insisted that I delete a section of code tha… more

One of your roommates (and a close friend that you’ve known for years) has a flight to catch. He has a suitcase, a duffle bag (no wheels), and a backpack. In order for him to get to the airport would you:

A) offer to drive h… more

When you have 5 years of digital buying experience and your boss decides to mansplain what retargeting is to you. 🙃🙃🙃

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No new posts on this board for 5 weeks. Does this mean everything is great and we ended mansplaining for good? 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

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I want to print this and put it on every male’s desk

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Mid-level Account girl emailed me a copy of my own form ‘for reference'. Like a Business Manager doesn’t know what a talent completion report is. Really?! 🤦‍♀️

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Vendor asked for closed caption files for a vid, but before sending I wanted to confirm where the vid would be to need them (for usage rights). He proceeded to then explain how captioning works.

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“First of all, you’re wrong. And you’re mansplaining.” - Me
“Well yeah I guess you could say that in the sense that I’m a man and I’m explaining something to you." - Male Account Exec
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I got mansplained twice in a meeting today and another guy actually said, “yeah, like *man* said a minute ago....”. I SAID THAT 30 SECONDS BEFORE HE DID, IDIOT.

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I was giving a short presentation about my experience at the Women’s March last year, and my male CD interrupted me to explain what the Women’s March was.

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I saw this on Twitter and felt it would be most appreciated by this group 😅

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“By establishing shot I meant wide shot”
This is wide.
“Wider than that. To establish the scene”
You didn’t shoot that
“We need to establish the scene”
With something you shot, or something imaginary?

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I laughed at my partner’s joke, and then he explained it to me as if I didn’t get it.

(I did.)

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Today I watched our creative director explain to our medical director how an MRI works. I had to pay close attention to my face to keep my jaw from hitting the floor. She literally has a PhD in this!

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My CD is one big 'Splainie 😡

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3rd week on the job, a guy 2 levels below me came into my office and started the conversation with "let me lend you a piece of advice...". As expected, it was not useful advice, he was just … more

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Colleague said “oh hello, who the fuck are you?” When I brought up what I guess was an unwanted opinion. This was years ago when I was more junior.

I got reprimanded by a man for having an uninspired point of view of a conference call. He then gave me his inspired POV...which was exactly the same. When I pointed that out he said, “huh. Maybe.”

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Male colleague sent me a link on how to storyboard. Reminded him of my title and my undergrad was significantly video-related.

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Producer just splained to female director how shooting boards work. I was busy trying to open window for jumping-out-of purposes.

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New GCD explained to me at great length what a manifesto is. I’ve been in advertising 15 years.

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“You know, women, they like yoga.” 🤭🤯 Thank you. I had no idea.

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Asked acct lead whether to include client contact's boss on a 3rd follow up to client contact who's super delayed on getting us materials for deliverable. He then proceeds to tell me...

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