Mansplaining

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  • gothomson
    gothomson Posts: 215 Member
    Manspreading...I try not to think of that at all! yeech!
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  • gramarye
    gramarye Posts: 586 Member
    otherusernamestaken wrote: »
    Espressocycle wrote: »
    I'm still not clear on when explaining becomes mansplaining. Does it have to be sexist, or can it just be insensitive in a general way? Can I mansplain to another man, or only to a woman? As far as I can tell, mansplaining just means thinking you're right.

    No, you can think you're right and even debate heatedly without mansplaining. The issue is the tone. Are you speaking loudly and slowly like the person you are talking to doesn't speak the language? Or saying words in a soothing, condescending manner that you'd interject when speaking to children, like, "I know honey that you don't understand, but you will once you get older" type of speech.

    Or, when men really enjoy telling women about their own feelings/biology/thoughts, like, "I know you're mad at whatever I said, but it wasn't what I said, it's that it's almost that time of the month, isn't it? Maybe you should make yourself some tea." And other asshattery.

    Yes. Mansplaining comes along when men talk to their conversation partner as though that person can't possibly be as informed or interested in the topic as they are. They just don't know anything yet.

    You can inform someone without mansplaining, certainly. But mansplaining comes from a place of, "This person doesn't know anything, and I know everything, so I'm gonna get down and talk on their level," while doing so as though they're talking to a toddler. It happens to women a lot, but we're not the exclusive targets.
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  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    otherusernamestaken wrote: »
    _John_ wrote: »
    y'all are all just insecure and allow yourselves to be offended too easily.

    Actually, no. Well, yes, but in the case of mansplaining, our sensitivity is irrelevant. An example - I replied to a man today in a mansplaining way and he replied that I didn't have to say it like that. When I told my hubs, he laughed, and said I picked that up from him. So men are offended by the way men speak in general. Right?

    This, ladies and gentlemen, is the definition of "Mansplaining". In this case, the "Mansplaining" was done by a woman. So, ironically, we have "Womansplaining" in a thread complaining about "Mansplaining".





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  • gramarye
    gramarye Posts: 586 Member
    _A_Real_Mouthful wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/ZOXh5repOWI

    Do you suppose that, if asked, he would say that she had "dominated" the conversation because she refused to be interrupted by him on several occasions?
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  • gramarye
    gramarye Posts: 586 Member
    _A_Real_Mouthful wrote: »
    gramarye wrote: »
    _A_Real_Mouthful wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/ZOXh5repOWI

    Do you suppose that, if asked, he would say that she had "dominated" the conversation because she refused to be interrupted by him on several occasions?

    reminds me of the time one of my lady friends needed the belt tensioner on her car replaced. it kept locking down and peeling the belt off. whole assembly was gonna crack at some point i've seen it happen and leave a guy (me) on the side of the road in DFW once upon a time. pretty easy fix too you just have to go down to o'reilly's and pick up a new one for like $25 prob go ahead and get a new belt to be safe if the old one hasn't snapped yet. tried telling her how i could do it for her cause i already had a socket set and bar and everything. my pops is a mechanic so we pretty much grew up under the hood of a car and crawling around on concrete underneath.

    it was then that she started screaming "reeeeeeee" and turned into a wing-ed serpent.

    I am utterly uncertain how to read your post, lol. You're either using hyperbole to say that she freaked out, or joking. I'm, like, 98% sure you're joking, but this is the Internet and I just don't know. :D
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  • mleech77
    mleech77 Posts: 557 Member
    This thread is truly amusing.
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    otherusernamestaken wrote: »
    As for the laundry...

    Speaking of laundry. Don't you have something to do honey?

  • HWeatherholt
    HWeatherholt Posts: 283 Member
    TwinkieDong wrote: »
    This is simply a femiNAZI term. They use any and every tactic to try and put down men. Men do explain this as history has shown men create things. Trains, planes, cars, rockets, telescopes, tires, telephones, radios, television, electricity, atomic energy, computers, and fax machines. All miracles made possible by the minds and spirits of men with names like Ampere, Bell, Caselli, Edison, Ohm, Faraday, Einstein, Cohen, Teller, Shockley, Hertz, Marconi, Morse, Popov. Ford, Volta, Michelin, Dunlop, Watt, Diesel, Galileo, and other "dead white males."

    Mary Anderson - Windshield Wipers
    Barbara Askins - NewFilm Developing Method that improves clarity of xrays & restores photographs
    Patricia Billinsg - Geobond a replacement for asbestos
    Marion Donovan - Disposable Diapers
    Bette Nesmith Graham - Liquid Paper (white out) (and mother of a "rock" star")
    Dr. Grace Murray Hopper - COBAL computer language
    Mary Phelps Jacob - Modern Brassiere (for those needing mansplaning that is a bra)
    Margaret Knight - machine that makes paper bags
    Stephanie Kwolek - Kevlar
    Hedy Lamarr - Spread Spectrum Technology (used to combat Nazis & the backbone of digital communications)
    Patsy Sherman - Scotchgard
    Dr. Giuliana Tesoro - holds 125+ patents related to organic compounds and textile processing
    Ruth Wakefield - Chocolate Chip Cookie
    Rachel Zimmerman - Blissymbol Printer (invented at as 12)
  • Hey_Its_That_One_Guy
    Hey_Its_That_One_Guy Posts: 21,763 Member
    HWeatherholt wrote: »
    TwinkieDong wrote: »
    This is simply a femiNAZI term. They use any and every tactic to try and put down men. Men do explain this as history has shown men create things. Trains, planes, cars, rockets, telescopes, tires, telephones, radios, television, electricity, atomic energy, computers, and fax machines. All miracles made possible by the minds and spirits of men with names like Ampere, Bell, Caselli, Edison, Ohm, Faraday, Einstein, Cohen, Teller, Shockley, Hertz, Marconi, Morse, Popov. Ford, Volta, Michelin, Dunlop, Watt, Diesel, Galileo, and other "dead white males."

    Mary Anderson - Windshield Wipers
    Barbara Askins - NewFilm Developing Method that improves clarity of xrays & restores photographs
    Patricia Billinsg - Geobond a replacement for asbestos
    Marion Donovan - Disposable Diapers
    Bette Nesmith Graham - Liquid Paper (white out) (and mother of a "rock" star")
    Dr. Grace Murray Hopper - COBAL computer language
    Mary Phelps Jacob - Modern Brassiere (for those needing mansplaning that is a bra)
    Margaret Knight - machine that makes paper bags
    Stephanie Kwolek - Kevlar
    Hedy Lamarr - Spread Spectrum Technology (used to combat Nazis & the backbone of digital communications)
    Patsy Sherman - Scotchgard
    Dr. Giuliana Tesoro - holds 125+ patents related to organic compounds and textile processing
    Ruth Wakefield - Chocolate Chip Cookie
    Rachel Zimmerman - Blissymbol Printer (invented at as 12)

    I figured this came about as a happy accident.

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  • HWeatherholt
    HWeatherholt Posts: 283 Member
    HWeatherholt wrote: »
    TwinkieDong wrote: »
    This is simply a femiNAZI term. They use any and every tactic to try and put down men. Men do explain this as history has shown men create things. Trains, planes, cars, rockets, telescopes, tires, telephones, radios, television, electricity, atomic energy, computers, and fax machines. All miracles made possible by the minds and spirits of men with names like Ampere, Bell, Caselli, Edison, Ohm, Faraday, Einstein, Cohen, Teller, Shockley, Hertz, Marconi, Morse, Popov. Ford, Volta, Michelin, Dunlop, Watt, Diesel, Galileo, and other "dead white males."

    Mary Anderson - Windshield Wipers
    Barbara Askins - NewFilm Developing Method that improves clarity of xrays & restores photographs
    Patricia Billinsg - Geobond a replacement for asbestos
    Marion Donovan - Disposable Diapers
    Bette Nesmith Graham - Liquid Paper (white out) (and mother of a "rock" star")
    Dr. Grace Murray Hopper - COBAL computer language
    Mary Phelps Jacob - Modern Brassiere (for those needing mansplaning that is a bra)
    Margaret Knight - machine that makes paper bags
    Stephanie Kwolek - Kevlar
    Hedy Lamarr - Spread Spectrum Technology (used to combat Nazis & the backbone of digital communications)
    Patsy Sherman - Scotchgard
    Dr. Giuliana Tesoro - holds 125+ patents related to organic compounds and textile processing
    Ruth Wakefield - Chocolate Chip Cookie
    Rachel Zimmerman - Blissymbol Printer (invented at as 12)

    Melitta Bentz - coffee filtration

    Katharine Burr Blodgett - non-reflective glass used for camera lenses, movie projectors, submarine periscopes, better eyeglasses, car windshields, and computer screens. Also worked research for gas masks, smoke screens and de-icing airplane wings.

    Marie Curie - X-rays
    Nancy Johnson - ice cream maker
    Maria Telkes - first 100 percent solar powered house
    Ann Tsukamoto - stem cell isolation
    Rosalind Franklin - DNA double helix
    Marie Beasley - the life raft
    Elizabeth magie - Monopoly Game
    Josephine Cochrane - dishwasher
    Martha Coston - signal flares
    Tabitha Babbit - the circular saw
  • HWeatherholt
    HWeatherholt Posts: 283 Member
    Rachel Zimmerman - Blissymbol Printer (invented at as 12)

    Should be at age 12.
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  • gramarye
    gramarye Posts: 586 Member
    HWeatherholt wrote: »
    HWeatherholt wrote: »
    TwinkieDong wrote: »
    This is simply a femiNAZI term. They use any and every tactic to try and put down men. Men do explain this as history has shown men create things. Trains, planes, cars, rockets, telescopes, tires, telephones, radios, television, electricity, atomic energy, computers, and fax machines. All miracles made possible by the minds and spirits of men with names like Ampere, Bell, Caselli, Edison, Ohm, Faraday, Einstein, Cohen, Teller, Shockley, Hertz, Marconi, Morse, Popov. Ford, Volta, Michelin, Dunlop, Watt, Diesel, Galileo, and other "dead white males."

    Mary Anderson - Windshield Wipers
    Barbara Askins - NewFilm Developing Method that improves clarity of xrays & restores photographs
    Patricia Billinsg - Geobond a replacement for asbestos
    Marion Donovan - Disposable Diapers
    Bette Nesmith Graham - Liquid Paper (white out) (and mother of a "rock" star")
    Dr. Grace Murray Hopper - COBAL computer language
    Mary Phelps Jacob - Modern Brassiere (for those needing mansplaning that is a bra)
    Margaret Knight - machine that makes paper bags
    Stephanie Kwolek - Kevlar
    Hedy Lamarr - Spread Spectrum Technology (used to combat Nazis & the backbone of digital communications)
    Patsy Sherman - Scotchgard
    Dr. Giuliana Tesoro - holds 125+ patents related to organic compounds and textile processing
    Ruth Wakefield - Chocolate Chip Cookie
    Rachel Zimmerman - Blissymbol Printer (invented at as 12)

    Melitta Bentz - coffee filtration

    Katharine Burr Blodgett - non-reflective glass used for camera lenses, movie projectors, submarine periscopes, better eyeglasses, car windshields, and computer screens. Also worked research for gas masks, smoke screens and de-icing airplane wings.

    Marie Curie - X-rays
    Nancy Johnson - ice cream maker
    Maria Telkes - first 100 percent solar powered house
    Ann Tsukamoto - stem cell isolation
    Rosalind Franklin - DNA double helix
    Marie Beasley - the life raft
    Elizabeth magie - Monopoly Game
    Josephine Cochrane - dishwasher
    Martha Coston - signal flares
    Tabitha Babbit - the circular saw

    Not to mention my favorite: Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer code and was able to compehend the development of the personal computer long before her time.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    Harry Truman
    Doris Day
    Red China
    Johnnie Ray
    South Pacific
    Walter Winchell
    Joe DiMaggio
    Joe McCarthy
    Richard Nixon
    Studebaker
    television
    North Korea
    South Korea
    Marilyn Monroe
    Rosenbergs
    H-bomb
    Sugar Ray
    Panmunjom
    Brando
    "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
    Eisenhower
    vaccine
    England's got a new queen
    Marciano
    Liberace
    Santayana goodbye
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    RespectTheKitty wrote: »
    man·splain
    manˈsplān/

    (of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.

    ETA: "Mansplaining" is one of my favorite types of words: a portmanteau, which is a combining of two words to create a new word

    mansplaining is already happening in this thread lol

    as predicted
  • jenovatrix
    jenovatrix Posts: 219 Member
    Where does a mansplainer get his water?

    From a "well, actually...."
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    jenovatrix wrote: »
    Where does a mansplainer get his water?

    From a "well, actually...."


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    giving me life you are

  • yusaku02
    yusaku02 Posts: 3,472 Member
    wolverine66 wrote: »
    Harry Truman
    Doris Day
    Red China
    Johnnie Ray
    South Pacific
    Walter Winchell
    Joe DiMaggio
    Joe McCarthy
    Richard Nixon
    Studebaker
    television
    North Korea
    South Korea
    Marilyn Monroe
    Rosenbergs
    H-bomb
    Sugar Ray
    Panmunjom
    Brando
    "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
    Eisenhower
    vaccine
    England's got a new queen
    Marciano
    Liberace
    Santayana goodbye
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  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Sugar_Pill wrote: »
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    the righter I am, the madder she gets...
  • PurringMyrrh
    PurringMyrrh Posts: 5,276 Member
    yusaku02 wrote: »
    PurringMyrrh wrote: »
    Mansplaining is just another word created by feminazis that cry about equality then preach inequality. Feminazis that have mugs with sayings like "male tears" on the side, but would completely lose it and go on a soapbox rant if a man had a mug that said "female tears"

    That mug is actually really funny when you go on urban dictionary and look up what 'male tears' means ;)

    I already know it's semen, and it's still feminazi misandry.

    That being said, do you want a mug full of female tears?

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