Mansplaining: how often is it accurately applied , or is it just an easy excuse to afford the real facts?

[DaveJord]

I believe mansplaining has bee over used and abused. There is place for everything, when it used correctly. But it is not something to accuse someone of just because you have a weak argument.

Definition:

Mansplaining - the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing with the presumption that the women had inferiors or no knowledge on the subject.

So don't get me wrong.

Mansplaining is a real thing, and it does happen when you have over bearing men with inflated egos. They tend to focus on how the problem focuses on them and do not consider the ramifications or impacts the issue might be having on other people around them. More times than not it is not that the women does not understand his prospective, but the man is failing to take her perspective on the issue into account.

Men are not Alone

Womansplaining is just a prevalent in the society today. I can not tell you how many times I have been blown off by a Female boss or co-worker for not understanding the issue at hand or grasping the full complexity of the problem. When in reality I just had a different prospective, not all complicated problems need to be complicated... Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)! When you simplify the problem a lot of the complications go away, as long as you identify the correct root cause and eliminate all the 2nd to 3rd order effects before they uproot the solution.

I have Struggled

I have struggled with men and women equally in this regard, where they just get hung up on their prospective or feelings and fail to account for your prospective on the problem. Or can not delineate or properly reverse engineer for root cause. They constantly case after the symptoms of the disease, but can not correctly diagnose or cure it.

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The term mansplaining was inspired by an essay, "Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way", written by Rebecca Solnit and published on TomDispatch. com on 13 April 2008.

Rebecca was apparently and author of an essay and some guy got into a debate with her about how she was wrong, and was then using direct quotes from her published essay to defend his position... so she invented the word mansplaining and its bee abuse every since.

[crossdressingrihno]

It’s something everyone does both man and woman but they wanted to paint it as something that only men do so they turned it into the word mansplainig In order to further divide the country so that the leftist organizations can continue with their secret agendas completely unhindered as the things that go on behind the scenes are being covered up by a curtain of tomfoolery.


Don’t get me wrong the right wing has its issues too neither side is really good they both have their advantages and disadvantages but both of them mostly have disadvantages in case you’re wondering I took the political compass test and it said that I am a centrist authoritarian like I’m very much in the center but very authoritarian.

[FilmGuy93]

It's often misused. Mansplaining is a very specific thing, but many women will use "mansplaining" as a way to attack men who try to give them advice.

[DaveJord]

Exactly. 👍

[Haha456]

mansplaining is one of the biggest turn offs for me. I went on a date with a guy who talked over me and wouldn't let me say a word whenever I disagreed with him on a topic. Trust me, I never saw him again. I was never so uncomfortable ever in my life.

[DaveJord]

Yeah sounds like he's was an asshole.

[Vegasrunner]

@haha456 Sounds like he dodged a bullet

[Missgingles]

Its a made up term to make women hide and act like victims. Anyone can be condescending

[Anonymous]

It's just a sexist and convenient way for fenminst to silence a debate instead of addressing a man's argument.

Sometimes the word is used to describe a man who actually is being condescending, but instead of just saying that, feminist like to assume that's he's only talking down to her because she is a woman and he is a man.

[Opinion Owner]

Feminist

[DaveJord]

Lol... you're right I have been talked down to by men many times... but its not mansplaining it just that he is an asshole. Which is what these women are really saying to you. It is not that your mansplaining necessarily its just that they are calling you and asshole. They might be right, but then again I thought this many times about someone, but as look back I can't say they didn't teach me something.

[Opinion Owner]

Exactly. And the times where a man is talking down to a woman because he's sexist... Again, calling him a "sexist" would cover that. I don't like "mansplaining" because it's implying that only men are cable of being sexist... Even after women came up with the sexist term "mansplaining" lol

[SaoirseS]

Seems to me it's just a cutesy word for overexplaining something, not gender specific or an excuse. Not that it's malicious, sometimes if you ask a question you might get an explanation rather than a straight answer to a specific questions. It's easy enough to say "ok got it" and move on. Lesson 1 in life: don't worry about the small stuff. Lesson 2: most all of it is small stuff.

[anon1903]

Yeah, both genders can be quite condescending depending on the individuals. But mansplaining tends to happen oftener and hence is a wide known concept.

[DaveJord]

I would not say it happens more often when men do it. But it does happen... I just think men are less sensitive about it because we expect it from women. My mother did it to me, my sisters did it. my exwife... of course my exwife would claim she didn't. She'd just say its not her fault I am an idiot. My mother and sisters would just say damn right I did cause you needed that shit!

But I have women do it many times, and when they have a defensiveless argument... they cry mansplaining as a defensive.

[Anonymous]

The behavior known as "mansplaining" is something both men and women do. I have been "mansplained" to by women plenty of times. But of course feminists feel the need to make it a men versus women thing, which is just unnecessarily divisive. Dividing the sexes is what feminism is all about these days.

[BeMuse]

Women tend to think that men are being condescending when women are wrong. Rather than admitting they are wrong, they like to play the victim and try to change the subject.

[BeMuse]

It's a delusion that they fabricate as a defense mechanism to shield themselves from their own low self-esteem and inferiority complex.

[BeMuse]

If you get something wrong, and new information comes to light you can either learn something new, or if you are a narcissist you can try to manipulate people by stomping your feet on the ground like a little girl.

[BeMuse]

Accusing people of "mansplaining" is just that, stomping your feet on the ground like a little girl to try to get your way by attempting to guilt people. It even sounds like a word made up by a toddler.

[BeMuse]

If you focus on telling the truth and avoid rumors then you won't have people correcting you all the time. It doesn't matter how you feel about your opinion. Get it right regardless of how you feel about the truth. You can tell the truth and still be of the opinion that the truth is fucked up.

[BrickBiggems]

Bring me your angry purple haired ham golems.

[TonightYouu]

That’s just a way for people to blame misogyny for their stupidity or lack of knowledge

[DaveJord]

mi·sog·y·ny

noun
dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.

There's a word I have not used in sentence before. Thanks

[TroyDT]

"Mansplaining" is a term that is intended to degrade men for daring to know something that she doesn't.

[USLegionary]

A sexist term used by women who feel intimidated my a more intelligent man.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/dUuO0VxLZcU

[RedStiletto88]

I love when men mansplain my job to me even though they have no training in it. I don’t think we do that to men.

[DaveJord]

As man you have to take my word on it... it happens. You ever get a 20 something that just doesn't get why we do something a certain way. You explain it and they say that's stupid they got a better idea. Of course you have seen that idea used before and you know that its not going to work.

I been womensplained to death... I just sit there and watch her come in and get frustrated all day and complain about how nobody helps her or teachers her anything. Can't tell you how many times I have had a women tell me I don't get it or I don't understand the complexity... when I been in the field for over 22 years at much higher level and only took this job because tis basic, because I am already collecting on my first pentation at 42 for which is $60,000.00 annual income.

[Agagagagaga]

Hah!

[backdoorman]

@RedStiletto88 I have had my job "mansplained" to me by women multiple times. The difference between you and me is that I don't feel the need to ascribe their condescending and arrogant manner to their gender because I don't see the point in it. There are arrogant and condescending people. Some are women and some are men. What's the point in dividing them by gender other than trying to make useless generalizations?

[HaveNoName]

It's just a word created by feminists. It has no justifiable meaning.

[Phoenix98]

In my experience it’s just a pathetic excuse used by people who’ve been beaten.

Their last grasp so to speak at winning a debate or argument.

[Anonymous]

The irony of "mansplaining" is that the feminists who coined and use the term are themselves the most prolific examples of the behavior it describes.

[Jltakk]

Femsplaining exists a whole lot more to me personally. I just give them the W because I'm never winning the argument.

[Anonymous]

Imagine we reached a point of needing communication master classes and there is no demand for it.

[StickStickity13]

Women constantly do it to me, what is that called?

[Anonymous]

Sorry I try making it a habit of not giving valid answers to stupid questions that are made up by idiot liberals and psycho feminazis

[Anonymous]

Anything woke, turns to shit.

[LimitedBenefits101]

It's a word feminist came up with

It doesn't exist.

[DaveJord]

It happens I have seen it. But I have see it go both ways... and men don't cry about it.

[JesseJayNeak]

It’s an excuse