Mansplaining

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.

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?

_A_Real_Mouthful wrote: »

https://youtu.be/ZOXh5repOWI

_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.

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)

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)

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

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