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Haha, well…I’ve really only ever been accused of it by my lady, and while I certainly respect her feelings, I honestly don’t feel like I did it.
Or if I did it, it’s because I’m an over-explainer by nature, with anyone. I like to eliminate the need for follow-up questions, common and expected ones anyway, and give all the info in one shot. I used to have trouble with employees working under me at times. I’d send a long, detailed text or email with all the instructions and all the contingency plans for any curveballs I could reasonably envision.
”Go to Walmart in City X, go find the grocery manager Joe. If Joe isn’t there, find Assistant Manager Mike or Store Manager Lauren. They will give you your setup instructions. The product will be on X-amount of pallets. Please confirm with the receiving slip that all items are delivered, or account for items that were not. Set up the product according to the planograms. Our section will be in Aisle 11A, left side, about halfway down, Category 232. It should be already clear for you.”, yadda yadda, a few more basics…. And then I’d get a text or email back, and the guy would just be like “yo, I’m at the store now. What should I do? Who should I talk to?”🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Like just clearly didn’t read or at least didn’t retain ANY OF IT. And it’s usually not some detail buried several paragraphs down. It’s just like they saw it, said “whoa…. that’s more than two sentences…. no fuckin’ WAY am I reading that.” They just want you to hold their hand through every step of the process, it’s crazy. I fuckin’ CAN’T with that shit😫😫😫
Anyway, as I over-explain on this very response🤣…. hopefully you recognize me as a “friendly”, so I say this with no misogynistic vitriol, and any lack of understanding is accidental…. but maybe I’m either misunderstanding, or have just not witnessed this phenomenon personally, more just in theory. Or maybe it’s happening and I’m totally blind to it, I guess that’s why I’m asking, haha.
When my lady says it, I feel like it always when we’re discussing a topic that I already know she doesn’t have knowledge of, usually just by choice, often sports-related. And I guess when any person, male or female or whatever, asks me something that I know they have little knowledge about, in an effort to help them understand, I explain it to them like their knowledge of it is close to zero, like they’re just conceptually aware of the topic, but I start at Chapter 1, Page 1. And then they can inform me what they already know about if they want me to skip ahead.
Like if I talk football with her, she knows what a quarterback is, we’ve got that part down. But it’s not like I can just say “the quarterback is getting sacked a lot because the defensive coordinator is running some complex stunts and twists, and mixing up blitzes and pressures”…she’s gonna be like “uhhh…what?”
And football is kind of an area of expertise for me, like I can get REAL in depth, start talking about “Figaro” adjustments, or MOD vs MEG coverage techniques, stuff the retired pro on the broadcast might not even get into. Like I could theoretically coach football, at some level, so it’s that kind of expertise (not that football is going to change the world, haha). When I don’t what I’m talking about, I’ll tell you flat out I don’t know and at best will be speculating. But when I know something, I know it, only altered if I receive new information. I can pontificate with the best of them😂
So to be honest, in my own experience, I haven’t felt I’ve been mansplaining when accused of it, because it’s a known area of expertise for me and not a known area of expertise for her. And it comes up infrequently enough that I’m not always going to recall what I’ve told her in the past, or assume that she cared enough to retain what, to her, is trivial information. I’m also very forgetful, and I probably wrongly assume others are as forgetful as me, haha.
But I’m a wordy person (obviously🤣), “succinct” isn’t my thing. And I guess the way my brain works is to explain things to everyone step-by-step, including basics, because I never assume someone else just knows something that I do. Like I’ve had so many instances where I’ve been lost because the explainer is just assuming I have a primary level of knowledge that I don’t, or they’re not detailing things.
I like details. Don’t just tell me a thing in a sentence. Give me the who, what, where, when, and why of the whole thing, so I have more than just a surface understanding. I’m not trying to to learn something in passing, I’m trying to master it in that moment. And I guess it surprises me when others aren’t.
Somebody was giving me shit about the length of my responses here recently, and to me, the worst responses are just these quick “sometimes” or “yes, lol” answers that give you nothing. I’m not going to waste seconds reading that and I don’t know why someone would waste their time on here to give three word answers, lmao. To each their own I guess, don’t let me tell you how to party, but if I wasn’t going to give full-on responses here I’d just be doing something else.
Anyway, way off track now, but I guess I’m just saying I see instances where one could potentially mansplain, but I feel wrongly accused, personally😝 I’m not assuming she doesn’t know sports stuff because she’s a woman, I’m assuming that because we’ve been together the better part of two decades and I know her as well as any other human on the planet, and I would be stunned if she sat down one day wanting to discuss the finer points of the 3-4 Zone Blitz or “TEX” stunts😂 She’s just like “oh, Tom Brady, I know that guy! He was Gisele’s husband.” She knows a little more than that, I’m only half-serious, but there are basic things I can’t just assume she knows in some cases. Like she doesn’t even know all the positions you can play, she’s just a novice in that area. I’ve been obsessed with this for like 35 years, and played the game for about 20 of them. I DO THIS SHIT, haha.
So there’s no track record to assume she’d know most things. One of my hockey buddies irrationally hates football for some reason, and if I had a conversation with him, I’d have to break it down similarly. If I’m covering something you know, by all means let me know and we can hit fast forward, I want to do that do.
I think for me, I just broadly assume no one besides me, regardless of gender, knows anything about anything until we’ve talked at length and I can assume otherwise. All part of thinking you’re smarter than everyone else. Jk, jk😂 But I guess to me, there’s no offense in assuming I didn’t know something that I did. I can easily just say “oh yeah, I’m familiar with that aspect”, maybe explain my level of expertise a little better, and then the person explaining can know where to pick up the story. But I guess I’m just not insulted to have someone think I don’t know things, because there’s just more in the world that I DON’T know than I do. If you know I played fairly serious football, you’d skip the step of explaining quarterbacks and the forward pass, haha.
At this point, I know some of what she knows, but sometimes I need to review. And I don’t want to be like “well, ACTUALLY….”, I just hope that one day she gets enough info to say “oh, this game is kind of interesting. Maybe I can watch with you and we can share a joyful experience together.” She seems to think I need to develop an interest in Bravo reality TV, lmao, but I don’t know if either of us will ever get the other where we want them to be😂
Alright, I’ve adequately mansolained myself enough, lmao. So I’d ask you, what’s an example you’ve experienced, so I have a better understanding? I don’t know if I’m doing it or not, haha, I certainly don’t intend to. I feel like she just enjoys giving me a hard time about things of that nature more than I’m actually violating😝 But I guess this is a good time to ask and self-review, hahaha
Well, a perfect example was a guy i used to work with. I remember training him for months and always answering his questions then about the year mark, I asked him to do a task on the system and he proceeded to try and explain the system to me and why it couldn't be done.
I had to sit there and just listen to him drone on about it before finally just showing him how it was done. At that point, he told me I should just do it myself. He did not do well taking direction from women.
Oh Jesus, that’s definitely obnoxious🤦♂️
@Ez-Bri-Z_v2,
That guy is gonna have a hard time in life. My bet is that he doesn't take direction well from anyone. Usually a case of extreme insecurity and lack of self confidence. They'd rather keep failing than ask for help and admit they don't know everything. I'm very willing to let them fail... and then get rid of them.
OK, this is gonna be funny and infuriating to women but I've got a story.
So I'm at a bar with a buddy and his girlfriend. She's 53 by the way. So a legitimate adult professional woman, not a kid. And VERY intelligent. We're just killing time chatting. A third guy we know walks up and joins the conversation. He's a blowhard with a beer gut but tolerable in small doses because he can be intentionally or unintentionally funny. He ends up standing because there are no seats left. So he's leaning on my friend's girlfriend's chair.
Throughout the conversation over the next 30 minutes or so, blowhard beer gut guy proceeds to respond to some comment this super nice woman made by mansplaining to her while reaching over and patting her on the head. He wasn't doing it to be funny. It was like a fatherly thing to a young daughter for him. Like I said he's funny unintentionally and she's a super nice person. She doesn't say anything and he keeps it up. Meanwhile she's looking daggers at me and my friend. We don't stop it. We were trying to keep from falling on the floor and laughing until we cried. I honestly thought she would snap any second, smash her wine glass on the bar, and drive the stem into blowhard beer gut guy's throat.
Alas, she did not. We finally got rid of the guy and she was laughing as hard as we were. To this day, if she's talking, one of us will randomly reach over and pat her on the head out of the blue every couple of months and we all just lose it. Drinks coming out our noses, etc.
When I say she's smart. I have a kit of 6 Mensa rated topological puzzles that I use during interviews to gauge candidates approach to problem solving and stress. They get progressively harder. She ran through the first five fast. With a couple of drinks in her. The final one took her a while but the solution is tedious to execute. She is top end of the bell curve smart.
You know people can just keep practicing to get better at those tests right
Including non-sentient entities like ChatGPT
@bingbongbangbung,
She had no practice. She had no warning. She asked what was in the black bag I placed on the bar. I told her. She asked to try. She had no time to study them. I pulled them out one at a time. I made her separate them AND reassemble them to make sure it wasn't just luck. She had to understand the physical relationships and the order of operations in each case and be able to reverse them in her mind. While consuming alcohol. She's a mathematician. You would have failed miserably.
I think a lot of it just comes from the way men vs women are socialized in the west. Ex. women are generally taught to be more socially aware and are encourage to improve their emotional intelligence more than men. If that's true then women are more likely to notice how the other person is feeling or thinking and make the decision to shorten or end an explanation, etc. I think most men don't mansplain out of malice (though obviously sexism can result in some pretty problematic assumptions that lead to mansplaining).
Overall though, I think it's more just lack of awareness. (Ex. if you can tell the person you're talking to is clearly disinterested or seems to already know what you're talking about, then you're more likely to change the subject or stop explaining.) If you meet a guy that's pretty self-aware and socially-minded, he's less likely to have mansplaining tendencies in my experience.
@chris_987 It's not really about "communicating with emotions".
Mansplaining becomes an issue when a man has made negative assumptions about a woman, usually with regards to her intelligence or knowledgeability on a subject, and so ignores signs, even explicit ones, that she might be more knowledgable than he assumed. Mansplaining also tends to be more of a one-sided lecture than an actual "conversation" or exchange of information. This is especially prevalent in technical, male-dominated spaces. Mansplaining doesn't really occur between men because there's no gender-based assumptions present. The issue is not the presence or use of emotion, but the assumptions and how it causes people to act in a manner that is patronizing (and thereby rather insulting).
My overall reasoning is that if men who have a tendency to mansplain (aka make negative gender based assumptions and act patronizingly in response) acted with greater self and social awareness, they would correct their assumptions more easily and treat their conversation partner with more respect more quickly.
So what if the girl is making that assumption? Then wouldn't it be entirely the girl's fault? Like how would you know that he is explaining something simply because he thinks you are a girl? And even if he was, what would be the problem with doing that. If 1% of women go into technology and a guy assumes she is less knowledgeable than he is, then he isn't wrong because only 1% of women do that. And it's the same for. If I go into a woman dominated field, the women can assume that I don't know anything about nails or fashion and they can educate me. I promise I won't feel judged. I'd understand why they assume I don't know anything.
@chris_987 I mean, I'm not aware of many instances when a woman is making a negative gender-based assumption about a man's intelligence, but yes, if a woman did do that it would be her own fault, though it probably wouldn't be the byproduct of historical gender-based oppression, just a personal failing. Which is why it's not a situation that's regularly talked about.
The problem in that first scenario is exactly what you said. She went into tech. She's sitting in the same room, at the same table, with the same credentials and experience, and yet she is the only person in the room being talked down to. (Also, side note, women are actually closer to 20 or 25% of the tech workforce.) It's less the initial assumption, though not ideal, but the refusal to acknowledge once that assumption has been corrected, or the instance of making that assumption when it's functionally illogical to make in the first place.
The problem with your second scenario is similar. You're making the assumption that you actually don't know about the field and someone is educating you in good faith. A more accurate version would be that you go into that nail salon or whatever, but you're a seasoned nail artist, you know the ins and outs of the field, all the tips and tricks, the trends, the history, and the girl you're talking to will *not* stop trying to explain the difference between teal and aquamarine, and worse, she's explaining it wrong.
Honestly mansplaining is usually pretty obvious. It's a man repeatedly addressing the only other man in the room when the woman is clearly more knowledgable. It's the "you wouldn't know" even when you obviously do. It's holding in the attempts to refute the incorrect information that some guy just googled in a bar to make himself seem smarter, but is now defending with his life because he can't admit that a woman might know more about a "man's topic" than he does.
I'll address each point or at least the ones I disagree with one by one
"I'm not aware of women making assumptions about a man's intellect"
we currently live in a society where Men are seen as dumb and incompetent and And they can't survive without a woman's help. If you turn on the TV for a brief second, you will see the archetype of the bumbling husband and his all-knowing wife. It's literally a meme at this point. So the fact that you aren't aware of about this phenomena means that you're not paying attention to what's going on. And that obviously affects your average woman's mind. The same way if they see is images of 4'9 girls beating up 6'7 guys on TV they will think that there is no strength difference between men and women.
"She is sitting in a room with the same credentials"
This is easily debunked on so many levels. But I'll start with this. I did computer sides in university and if you know anything about school a lot of people. Both men and women don't really know what they want to do in life, but they also have pressure from their parents to make money. So there were many girls in my course that were not interested in technology at no point in their life but chose it because they thought it was a way they could make money. And that was obvious because they'd be the ones crying to the professor to give them a passing grade.
And also to that point many male dominant spaces such as video games, action, movies and cartoons have been taken over by women. And These women don't have an appreciation for men in general so what do they do. They come in there change characters. Saying that no women should be objectified. And they literally have to make the male characters Dumber so that the female character is can out shine them. Examples of this are pretty much all the recent Marvel movies, all the video games where they introduce a fat unattractive characters because they don't want men to be attracted to women. But on the flip side they have no problem with attractive men being market it to women. That literally would be an example of both your first point, which is you've never seen an example of a negative base gender assumption, and women coming into an industry and literally tanking it because they think they know better than the man who were there before them. So both your arguments were debunked right there.
" Mansplaining is pretty obvious"
again, it's all based on feelings because if a man can demonstrate that he is explaining things to you the same way he would explain things to a man that he disagrees with. Then it's literally you just feeling like you're being singled out because you're a girl. Because I've seen many debates where a man who's let's say a Christian is debating with an atheist who is also a man. And the moment he debates with an atheist who is a woman, she says he is mansplaining the Bible to her, but the atheist man would never say that because he sees them as equal. The woman is the only one in this scenario that feels like the man is talking down to her and that's all based on her own insecurities.
You mean explain their opinion or impart knowledge?
For instance my husband is all the time Mansplaining cars but then he is z mechanic and I'm not so knowledgeable
@chris_987 Mansplaining is basically a guy trying to voice his opinions as though you may hear them like a reasonable person rather than attack them
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Because the little darlings need mansplaining an awful lot in this modern world and quite regularly. It is a bit frustrating but, being well disposed to women, I'll re-mansplain as many times as it takes till they get it.
Not all women of course. I met one this week who not only had good physical reasoning but would change her opinion as new information was made available to her. I doubt I'll need to mansplain anything twice to her. In fact I am encouraging her to join the building committee next year. She is very much a stand out though.
I think women are prone to simply not understanding the physical world. Therefore partitioning a problem is difficult for them. After pressing as many TV remote buttons as fast as they can, I think the thinking goes "IT'S NOT WORKIIINNNGGG !!! - I'll push even more buttons even faster".
OK, this is humor but I have seen this female foible a lot with many women.
My last words are sure to be"Power off. Count to 30 slowly. Power up". Then I will cheyne stoke and die mansplaining.
I'm still not really convinced it's a thing. There are definitely a lot of annoying "know-it-alls", and they are definitely disproportionately male (and probably a little further along on the spectrum), but I dont think they target women particularly - they're just the kind of people who can't resist trying to show off to anyone who will listen (perhaps men would just be more likely to tell them to shut up, or less likely to admit to being unsure of something in the first place).
There's been an interesting trend on social media in recent years, in the way "engagement farmers" behave. In the past, they would have posted quite interesting and thought-provoking articles, but this takes a lot of effort and generates only a small amount of engagement (comments, likes, etc).
What you see everywhere now, is a subtle form of "rage-baiting", where the authors write articles on popular topics, which are intentionally either full of errors, or simply awful takes on the subject matter - and the comment sections will be absolutely packed with know-it-alls, pedants and self-professed-experts, who just cannot resist the urge to correct the author. I wouldn't mind betting that these commenters are the exact same people who get accused of mansplaining.
Aside from obvious misogynistic beliefs, aside from the fact that the world is full of self-absorbed people. On that last point, make no mistakes, my mom beats you all 24/7 on that matter 😂
Aside from that, my idea is that it is appealing to men especially, to mansplain EVERYONE, indiscriminately. I view this tendency as socially ingrained, one of the variants of a wee wee battle, crossing bananas with information.
Unconscious power display in case some female would pop up?
Ok. So let me explain this to you……. JOKING!!!
the thing to understand is men fix problems. It’s the way our minds work. So when we see or hear of something wrong…. We try to explain it and how to fix it. I know it can be over the top sometimes but we don’t mean harm, it’s just how we are wired.
Lol
Yeah, but that kind of implies that women don't know how to fix problems, doesn't it? It's not necessarily being done wrong, just not the way he would prefer. Am I wrong?
Phased like that, it implies that men would function FUNDAMENTALLY like that. Which is heavily debatable (and constantly debated) by soft science, possibly by hard science too.
Nature.
Culture.
Who's gonna win? 
It’s not a real thing. This is the response that fragile female egos produce when they realize that they’re not as smart as they think they are.
Men are generally very efficient with their words. We don’t explain anything to anyone if it hasn’t become perfectly clear that they require an explanation or it’s otherwise a part of our job. We certainly don’t over explain. This is at the heart of women whining about men not talking enough and the popular myth that men aren’t good communicators. Suddenly women think men are talking too much and over explaining? 😂😂😂
That’s a women problem with perspective, not a men problem of behavior.
Oh trust me, from this end of things you definitely over explain things especially when it's not needed. The problem in the end is not that women never need help, it's that consent was given to give that help. It takes just a moment to ask if we need help rather than just jump in and start mansplaining things we already know.
I doubt it...
u Sometimes, "Mansplaining" is the label applied when a man explains something to a woman and she just doesn't want to admit that she didn't understand. Sometimes, the one applying the label is the one who is trying to control things.
And sometimes, guys are condescending (just like women are sometimes condescending. We - men and women - are all flawed.)
Women are not so different.. The fact that there's a term specifically for men shows that it's more of an ego thing for the people who made it up.. Men explain everything to everybody.. I have guys in the gym (mainly older men) who see me ( a pretty muscular dude) and still have the need to explain how to workout.. Women seem to think that many of the things men do are specific to them, no they do it to other men too.. LOL.. And a lot of women overexplain as well..
It’s a sexist term invented by feminist extremist to turn an act of kindness into an act of oppression
Men explain things to one another. And don’t mind receiving an explanation if someone has it.
But man women can’t handle being taught or informed on something and they lash out like teenagers
(Some men do it too to be fair)
But the idea of “mansplaining” has an aggressive connotation against someone trying to do you a favor
It doesn't come off as an "act of kindness" it comes off as belittling as if we are incapable of doing the job correctly. Its not so hard to ask if we need help instead of just stepping in and explaining it like we are 5.
I’m with you on it coming off tacky when the guy does it in a condescending tone
But the term “mansplaining” has been weaponized against men and it doesn’t discriminate.
The second someone tries to share any insight at all he runs the risk of becoming the big bad wolf
And that is sexist to me
Assuming kindness is bold lol, I would not think of altruism as a default, in this context.
While "mansplaining" is part of a feminist framework, the way it is weaponized depends also on the receiver. Personally, I'm looking at where the finger points at, it talks about social behaviors, I see them happening around me. So mocking them is a good thing in my eyes.
Like I see the good in other social commentaries, to laugh at it and to reflect upon what we're doing and why.
It's just a stupid term made up by women who were angry at men. It's the same thing as womansplaining they're both stupid and it's immature.
Just because someone is explaining something to the opposite sex doesn't mean there's any ill intent or that it's done to demean anyone.
When I explain something to a woman I'm not doing it to demean her I'm just explaining something to her either because she doesn't understand what I'm talking about or because she asked for an explanation. I'm just explaining it to her the same way I would to anyone else.
People need to get over themselves, grow up and stop acting like children.
“Mansplaining” is a term feminists use to dismiss any man explaining something they don’t like or don’t want to hear. It’s not about control—it’s about rejecting men’s perspectives entirely by labeling them condescending for daring to speak.
If a woman explains something to a man, it’s “empowerment.”
If a man explains something to a woman—even accurately—it’s “mansplaining.”
The double standard is the real issue here, not the act of explaining. Maybe some people just don’t like being corrected, especially when they’re wrong.
– Eva ❤️
Well, that's a load of bull, but you're welcome to your ai girlfriends opinion.
There are always going to be jerks out there, but I think it mostly happens because women constantly say and do things around us that indicate that they don't actually know how to do what we're asking them to do.
My sister is a structural engineer. She is a brilliant woman whom I have a great deal of respect for. As smart as I know she is; she does the most braindead stuff on an almost daily basis if I don't tell her exactly what I want done and how.
The perspective of possibly demeaning a woman is always on the cards here, especially when it comes to certain male chauvinist pigs
But I think that the real root causes of this but kind of inappropriate behaviour is that most men are insensitive!
If I were talking about hurricanes, I have pretty much professional experience forecasting them once they are in the process of forming. The experts on television never tell you more than half of what they know and they know half what they think they know :). Examples:
What is the central dense overcast?
Do feeder bands strengthen or weaken hurricanes (the science has changed)?
Why is temperature of cloud tops important and why do colder cloud tops make a warm core system stronger?
What is the formula for wind damage of a hurricane if the storm remains the same size but the winds double in speed?
Anyway, you probably aren't a hurricane expert nor enthusiast. You might or might not know these things, or you might not even give a damn.
How the hell is anyone to know what level of conversation or explanation you might want (or need) about a topic unless you explain yourself also?
Well, obviously, what you need to understand is...
Joking!
I did fund myself explaining what an operating system is to a 40 year IBM veteran. That was embarrassing.
Lol
I bet! Hopefully they had a good humor about it.
I know I don’t do it in a demeaning way and it’s only if she wants to know why something works that way or why does it do it that way but if I try to explain something with cars, she doesn’t wanna really bother learning anything about it so I never do it unless they ask me to explain something
It depends on what type of person he is, but most likely just a way to convey how he thinks. Men can also dump all info he knows to get a reaction from the person he's talking to. Maybe to start a convo, or to end it.
The same reason women “womansplain” things to a man. I explain things to women the same way I do anyone else. Some people maybe don’t feel like women have as much experience with something. If I feel like she isn’t understanding what I’m saying I may explain something differently.
But it’s sexist to say there is mansplaining but not womansplaining. Because both sexes do this shit. Not everyone mind you. But enough
@Respawner2 so all men are the same? Makes sense why you’re probably alone forever. Nobody with self worth or respect would want a sexist 🐷
@Respawner2 people yell at me all the time when I call men out for their bullshit as well. There is plenty of narcissistic selfish women as many as there are men.
It seems like you’re projecting who you are on billions of men. So before you take your anger out on a bunch of men that you don’t know and never did anynring to you. Maybe you should check why you feel so triggered because the fact you’re offended says more about you then anyone else
@Respawner2 someone needs therapy
@Respawner2 call out any “nonsense” you wanna call out. Because I can call out many things that both men and women do.
I don’t know who hurt you… but stop taking it out on everyone. You have become the same monster that hurt you.
@Respawner2 you are being sexist…. And I’m not changing the subject. I called out your nonsense and you didn’t like it. You can dish it but can’t take it.
We call people like that hypocrites
Men are basically on this earth to solve your problems...
Proceeds to turn that into a problem as well...
Women... am I rite.
I don't know who is more sexist.
You or the people who say "mansplaining".
@HelpfulGirlll That's actually a really good point.
On the bright side I'm aware of my sexism... most of the people who say "mansplaining" are not aware that they're being sexist by saying that. Just like the anti-racist racists that think they're not racist because they're being racist a bit differently than a normal racist.
I'd say that a large portion of men do it because they understand that a large portion of women have absolutely no desire to learn anything about cars, guns, boats, fishing, and other topics that have long been dominated by males.
Men don't "mansplain" to be condescending. they do it because they want to help and it's reasonable to assume a woman won't know much regarding certain things.
@Ez-Bri-Z_v2 I don't need to 'mans-plain' anything to Diane... she womansplains to me! Ez-bri-z... you over reached on this one, maybe SOME women need 'mansplaining' not the women I know.
u we mansplain to anybody... not just women...
Typically women insist on the man being in charge so they don't have to think or deal with life. They want the man to pick the restaurant and they get mad if he asks them. This dynamic of a man basically replacing the woman's father causes men to take a leadership roll. Personally I think it's parasitic so I don't date but it's how things are.
I'm just explainey, its not because she's a women its because I like sharing knowledge.
In my experience most of the time "Mansplaining" Is when a man explains something a woman didn't understand and then she gets upsets because she feels stupid now so she takes it out on him for helping.
It's definitely to belittle women. Especially if they add a sweetheart or sweet little pet name.
Just say "Thanks little buddy" 😉
Idkits so toxic - I just block these types of men especially the ones who blame women for everything...
Hey, I get it. My dad used to mansplain stuff to me all the time. Like I was still a small child. Nothing is more annoying.
Also you have a cute kitty.
Some probably do it to puff themselves up. Other likely just thing they are giving you the info you want, not realizing they are being annoying - like I was just there.
Because that's how maga men mindset works. Plain ignorance. A lot of successful smart woman Eva Longoria , Michelle Obama are good examples Lynz Way.
What is mansplaining exactly in one sentence?
The act of uninvited opinions or directions on how to do something as if the woman was incapable of doing or learning on her own.
Key word: uninvited.
Why take a behavior that both sexes do, to the opposite sex and to their own, and assign genders to it, with one as the villain and the other as the victim? I can think of few more effective ways to divide men and women.
I don't even know what mansplaining is to be honest. I think it's just a tactic to shame the other person because you don't have a response when they're explaining something you clearly don't know.
Like to when I think of a woman using the word "mansplaining" I imagine a situation where the man feels like the woman is clearly wrong about what she's talking about and he explains to her why she's wrong. And instead of the women analyzing if she really is wrong. Her brain goes to " he should feel shame for even explaining something that I don't know"
Men don't generally use shaming as a tactic for an argument. So we would never try to make a person. Feel shame for explaining something they feel is wrong about our argument.
@chris_987 I know what it is, because I see women use the term, and it's usually just insecure women trying to play victim and divide men and women.
Are there men who are assholes? Sure. But they're assholes to everyone.
Are there women who are assholes too? Of course. But they're usually assholes to everyone.
Is there sexism involved? I'm sure there is sometimes. But I have yet to see a case where a man is accused of "mansplaining" where it was actually sexism.
@ez-bri-z_v2 This kind of crap does a lot more harm than good. Be a better person.
Women don't show their knowledge often to those who EXPLAIN because they don't KNOW her. It's often because women behave in such a way as to that they appear dumb or don't make it clear they KNOW stuff.
There is no need for me to mansplain anything to anyone. I don't go around women and I don't want them around me either.
We are trying to help by explaining it. And we are men, so mansplainling. It’s also how we speak to each other but you are such fragile creatures and definitely not “strong independent women” if that offends you.
Did you make this post to womansplain (Nagging)
Oh, you again.
What am I explaining here? I asked a question, not told you the reason why. If you have nothing to add, you should just stop commenting as I told you in the other question.
You struggle with understanding how words works don't you? First, using gaslighting incorrectly and now womansplaining?
You really should just stop posting at this point before you make yourself look any more foolish.
cause some people use the word "mansplain" to mean "a man explaining something to a woman in a condescending way". and some just use the word mansplain to mean "a man explaining somethign to a woman": that's why.
Men do it in a desperate attempt to sound like they know what they are talking about.
I don't understand. Can you give an example?
I could’ve sworn women want men in their lives to fix problems. Now it’s bad if we don’t? Which is it?
"Mansplaining" is a derogatory, sexist slang i never ascribe to anyone's behavior.
I wonder why so many people tolerate this even.
I don't know as it isn't something that I become aware of.
I've never received a concrete definition, on the term, lol. However, I would assume we all try to explain away things, men are just not as good at it!
Why do so called feminist women believe theyre so oppressed by men
Why do some women feel the need to womansplain to men? Why do some women feel the need to constantly nag men?
There i just fixed your question appropriately
You didn't fix a thing. That's the problem with some men. They think they are helping but instead offer advice that wasn't needed or wanted and are generally useless information. Thank you for showing an example of my question though.
Oh you're welcome and thank you for answering my questions with your innate meaningless dribble
Let me "womansplain" something to you. The word is drivel, not dribble. You'd know that if you had any semblance of intelligence.
No i actually meant dribble because all the crap that keeps dribbling up and down your mouth to what one can assume are words
Sure you did
Mansplain is a made up bullshit word that does not exist.
Well anyone who uses the phrase "mansplaining" must be dumb... so I understand why they feel the need to explain things to you...😂😢
And anyone who posts useless responses must be in that category as well, so welcome to the club.
Don't womansplain at me... it hurts my very very sensitive ego and my tiny dick energy...
I actually dont doubt that at all. I mean, after all, you got riled up at a simple question, so your ego really is sensitive.
I'll try not to pick on you anymore, kiddo.
Oh snap... I thought you might be 29... You're this old and still this immature? Ooof. Who hurt you, sweetheart? Was it daddy? Was it the mailman? Was he smarter than you and you were offended by it? Seek some talk therapy with someone who can actually help you with your mental illness rather than an echo chamber of equally immature harpies. 5 years until the big 50... you've got a lot of growing up to do in a very short period of time... I can send you a pack of depends if you like?
Yikes. You really are triggered, aren't you? That really is the best you can do though? Lame jokes about my dad and my age?
Maybe you should be the one seeking therapy for that fragile ego, kiddo.
Thank you for checking on me. Bless your heart.
You're very welcome. Have the day you deserve.
Lol. It's been great. Thank you!
Mostly because it's frustrating that some of you are so stupid cannot figure simple things out on your own.
The same could be said for men, especially incels who blame women for their failings.
They're not mansplaining, they're being condescending jerks. Mansplaining is a feminist, woke term used to degrade and bring down men.
mansplaining
/ˈmanspleɪnɪŋ/
the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
I don’t know. Why do women always feel the need to tell men what a real man is?
I am just trying to be helpful. Why do women have to over explain?
we have to explain everything to you somehow...
Mansplain... Is men explaining technical stuff to women who don't understand things technical.
Men have to explain in easy to understand language
Now do you get it?
🤣🤣🤣
I have no idea. Sorry
Womensplain too
I guess they are arrogant.
Do women ever womansplain?
I’m not sure what Mansplain is
why not?
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