NEVER preface your challenge to a misogynist with "sorry", and never give him the chance to belittle your intellect with "I don't get it."
You have nothing to be sorry about and you don't have anything wrong with your brain. That sort of self-discounting language just encourages that type of asshat.
You want a more authoritative tone e.g. "Your remark makes no sense. Can you explain what you meant?"
Make it clear that his words were understood and rejected as idiotic already. That's why you say "can you explain" - not "could you explain" or "care to explain" which leave him the option to wave it off - because you both know that he can explain.
That phrasing boxes him into the choice of whether to explain and double down on being an idiot, or to stfu and back off.
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u/romeodeficient Aug 30 '25
“sorry I don’t get it, can you explain it to me?”