Mansplaining

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  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,780 Member
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    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 ;)

    no way am i doing this
  • Espressocycle
    Espressocycle Posts: 2,245 Member
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    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.
  • willammoney
    willammoney Posts: 137 Member
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    If you don't want me to mans plain then don't ask

    I'm not your Google
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
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    otherusernamestaken wrote: »
    So glad I heard about this term. And here I thought hubs was being a jerk when he did it. Apparently they all do it, and when they do, they are not being jerks, they are being men. How nice.

    They do not all do it. And they are being jerks when they do it.
  • TwinkieDong
    TwinkieDong Posts: 1,564 Member
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    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."
  • eeejer
    eeejer Posts: 339 Member
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    Jerks are condescending, gender notwithstanding. Plenty of women think they know it all as well.
  • gothomson
    gothomson Posts: 215 Member
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    unfortunately it does happen, and its wrong. So does that make me a feminazi? Of course not. also if you "liked" that one look up "Manterupting" :-)
  • eeejer
    eeejer Posts: 339 Member
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    You have to watch out for these as well https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brocialist oh and we all hate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manspreading
  • gothomson
    gothomson Posts: 215 Member
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    Manspreading...I try not to think of that at all! yeech!
  • gramarye
    gramarye Posts: 586 Member
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    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.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
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    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".





  • gramarye
    gramarye Posts: 586 Member
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    _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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