I think "mansplaining" is a sexist term usually used by feminists who cannot debate a subject or matter properly. Invoking gender to shut down a person's right to speak is a classic radical feminist tactic and is completely hypocritical.
In all honesty it's a word that describes how people chose to interrupt someone and ignore their knowledge only to talk about what they supposedly know.
The only thing wrong with this term is that it is used towards men, even though all genders have the ability to be an ass
I don't know why - I have been on GAG a while - but I'm a little surprised by the hyper negative responses from men. I've personally seen this happen like a zillion times, so I'm not really sure what folks are upset about. I mean, it's a word that describes something that happens often.
I just think it's a little hypocritical since it's a word invented and used by feminists who are supposedly all about equality and constantly complain that they're viewed as anti-male, to say that this is a gender specific issue as if women don't do the same to men, which they do all the time.
The word was first used in a comment section on a feminist writer's article (Rebecca Solnit) titled "men exolain things to me". It's safe to assume that most commenting there were feminists, and it is feminists who mostly use that term. Oh shit, am I mansplaining right now?
I use it too. Men don't like it because they think it's sexist. Well we don't like being talked down to like a child! Mansplaining is sexist. Don't get mad because we call you out on it.
In all seriousness, we can't really expect them to understand something that they don't experience.
Men talk like this to each other too, it's not because you're a woman, it's because men and women have different styles of communication... Men tend to be competitive and talk over each other, women are more agreeable and have more refined communication skills. And when these two worlds collide, women tend to get the short end of the stick :-/ When someone does this to you, dont be polite, just keep talking, be obnoxious if you must... that's how we do it ^^
we have no idea, the irony. This is not to patronize you or trying to mansplain but try and step away from media for a good month or so, look at the difference as to what it is doing to your personality. if you dont like purging then you can just go back to this state.
Since when are men morally superior or seen as victims? XD I'm laughing my ass off right now. I've been told by the media, by parents and by teachers that boys are the ones who cause all the trouble, who understand nothing about feelings and who are to blame for everything wrong in life as long as I can remember. I've been constantly encouraged to think about womens' issues and their place in the world, told I may never hurt them, while in every single comedy movie men get kicked in the nuts by women and get laughed at, I've been spat on by girls, punched in the face by as an 8-year old by girls who were twice the size of me and who I've never met before, laughed at and called gay by them when I had acne, and now they stare at me, they do EVERYTHING only men are accused of, and I'm SICK of it, of taking the blame for being a boy, so FUCK YOU and your MANspreading and MANsplaining and expecting us to give a fuck about what you want from us.
YOU are the one who only cares about their gender and who denies that the other one has problems, denouncing the other ones' life experience and seeing it through an egotistical lense. EVERY man knows that women have certain feelings about their place in life we can never experience, bit I doubt that nearly as many women ever had the same thought about men, including you. Look up the statistics and you will see that women in the western world are doing better in every aspect of life. Just stop calling us ignorant and condescending us or go fuck yourself. You're everything you accuse men to be.
Either they're explaining or they're being condescending. Trying to make up a word for it specifically because it's a man being condescending is just asinine. Women can be condescending too, but if we said femsplaining, or got aggressive and made bitchsplaining popular, there'd be riots.
The definition of mansplaining is that it is in a condescending and patronizing way. But it isn't even a real word. It's a slang term that never caught on. I don't think anyone would be taken seriously if they said that during a serious conversation
Ahaha... Some people get bad attitudes. Personally, I try to say that I am checking my understanding.. but sharing information can be a loving act.. (regardless of the sex of the person) but I think it was a thing that the guy appreciated... Being told how things work... So he is trying to share that... Maybe nievly...
It's suppose to be when a man is explaining something to a woman that women generally don't know much about like cars, or electronics or something, but do so in a condescending manner that is borderline insulting to the woman's level of intelligents. Unfortunately, modern extremist feminism has warped this into anything and anyway a man explains anything to a woman becomes automatically "mansplaining" and therefore also automatically derogatory, insulting and sexist which is complete nonsense.
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Since I met my girlfriend 10 years ago, I have this running joke with her that she was born under a rock until she met me. Certain things that are pretty common things to know she has no clue about. For example, the term "you need this done yesterday" completely flew over her head. She sworn she never heard it before. She had no clue what the guy meant. Or certain cultural references like "it doesn't matter if you win by inch or a mile, winning is winning (places arms up in the air)" . So many times that this happens I have to explain what these references mean.
She stumbled into a mansplaining video in Facebook and said "hey, you do this!" Then I replied "fine, look like a clueless moron meanwhile everyone around you is laughing because they get the joke/reference. "
What you do isn't mansplaining. That's just plain explaining. Are you really surprised that your girlfriend missed yet another cultural reference? You need to explain mansplaining to her... it's so close to being ironic...
A man can't know how a uterus works? I have and still teach women more about their sexuality than they knew prior. You're not going to believe me and that's fine but I've had more than one woman say it to me.
If a female doctor of prostate health hits me up should I just be like HA! Femsplaining!! You're a woman and can't possibly know anything about my prostate.
I suppose I have filed it in its jokey sense where certain stereotypical attributes of a group are parodied. My feelings on this once you are laughing "With" someone rather than "At" someone, its okay - Beyond that you move onto "Patronising" or "Offensive" behaviour which probably should be addressed seriously.
I think its a sexist term designed to dismiss a man's opinion and stop him from expressing himself.
And why do we need a gender specific term to accuse someone of being condescending. In my experience, women, especially feminists are just as likely, if not, more likely to be condescending when expressing their viewpoints.
Afraid Bandit74 is spot on here. I find the term sexist. Both men and wmen can be pricks, problem is I think society tends to let us guys get away with that more than it allows women to do so.
A 24 yo woman, licenced psychologist, did not know she had a urethra. She thought she was peing from her vagina and that peing help her clean her vagina from period blood. Was I 'mansplaining' to her, or just explaining? She also did not know that the sun was a star.
She's an idiot and that, to me, is not mansplaining, that is talking some sense into her. What I was referring to was a man who strongly disagreed when I told him my menstruation lasted for 6 days, claiming a menstruation can only last 5 days, and did not listen to a word I was saying. (I was the right one)
So if a male gynecologist were to explain something to you if you had an inflamed uterus, you'd cover your ears and yell mansplaining because he's a man talking about the female body? It's funny how people think they know more than someone because it affects them than someone who studied it in college and got a degree from it lol.
I know, that's why I said "if." And besides that, you don't know another person's knowledge, so if you don't know solid facts/evidence about a certain subject or topic and don't know everything about it, how can you discredit another person just because of something trivial like their gender?
I think it's idiotically sexist. Woman inturupt me way more than any other sex with me. Inturupting is basically ones etiquette with speaking. It goes for both sexes, and shouldn't be categorized farther than being a rude little shit. But, that's just me.
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I think "mansplaining" is a sexist term usually used by feminists who cannot debate a subject or matter properly. Invoking gender to shut down a person's right to speak is a classic radical feminist tactic and is completely hypocritical.
https://youtu.be/TJyQpRfaGnwI love when this Australian politician shuts down a feminist politician using the sexist term mansplaining
In all honesty it's a word that describes how people chose to interrupt someone and ignore their knowledge only to talk about what they supposedly know.
The only thing wrong with this term is that it is used towards men, even though all genders have the ability to be an ass
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I don't know why - I have been on GAG a while - but I'm a little surprised by the hyper negative responses from men. I've personally seen this happen like a zillion times, so I'm not really sure what folks are upset about. I mean, it's a word that describes something that happens often.
If you think the word mansplaining is a real thing then you have to accept that womansplaining is a real thing as well
Mansplaining is not a thing. It's just a term used by irrational women whenever a man uses logic against them.
I just think it's a little hypocritical since it's a word invented and used by feminists who are supposedly all about equality and constantly complain that they're viewed as anti-male, to say that this is a gender specific issue as if women don't do the same to men, which they do all the time.
Would love to see the patent from "The Feminists" inventing "mansplaining"... or did you just claim that as fact to back up your narrative?
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The word was first used in a comment section on a feminist writer's article (Rebecca Solnit) titled "men exolain things to me". It's safe to assume that most commenting there were feminists, and it is feminists who mostly use that term. Oh shit, am I mansplaining right now?
God... how dare you patronise me with some facts?
I use it too. Men don't like it because they think it's sexist. Well we don't like being talked down to like a child! Mansplaining is sexist. Don't get mad because we call you out on it.
In all seriousness, we can't really expect them to understand something that they don't experience.
Men talk like this to each other too, it's not because you're a woman, it's because men and women have different styles of communication... Men tend to be competitive and talk over each other, women are more agreeable and have more refined communication skills. And when these two worlds collide, women tend to get the short end of the stick :-/ When someone does this to you, dont be polite, just keep talking, be obnoxious if you must... that's how we do it ^^
Are you seriously "womansplaining" mansplaining?
@DonkeyRick69 yes, she literally just womensplanned, and she will never understand because its something that she doesn't experience
😂😂 You guys are trying so hard
@FreedomByChoice now she's dismissing our views in a condescending manner. Total womansplaining.
@DonkeyRick69 dont you just hate that? I feel so oppressed
Hahahahahahahaha. You poor guys really have no idea. But by all means keep trying. I'm sure you'll get it at some point.
we have no idea, the irony. This is not to patronize you or trying to mansplain but try and step away from media for a good month or so, look at the difference as to what it is doing to your personality. if you dont like purging then you can just go back to this state.
@FreedomByChoice Why would she? Blaming others and feeling morally superior and victimized is a perfectly comfortable place to be in.
@Journeyman11 Which is exactly why men tend to dismiss feminism. Thank you for that fine example.
Since when are men morally superior or seen as victims? XD I'm laughing my ass off right now. I've been told by the media, by parents and by teachers that boys are the ones who cause all the trouble, who understand nothing about feelings and who are to blame for everything wrong in life as long as I can remember. I've been constantly encouraged to think about womens' issues and their place in the world, told I may never hurt them, while in every single comedy movie men get kicked in the nuts by women and get laughed at, I've been spat on by girls, punched in the face by as an 8-year old by girls who were twice the size of me and who I've never met before, laughed at and called gay by them when I had acne, and now they stare at me, they do EVERYTHING only men are accused of, and I'm SICK of it, of taking the blame for being a boy, so FUCK YOU and your MANspreading and MANsplaining and expecting us to give a fuck about what you want from us.
YOU are the one who only cares about their gender and who denies that the other one has problems, denouncing the other ones' life experience and seeing it through an egotistical lense. EVERY man knows that women have certain feelings about their place in life we can never experience, bit I doubt that nearly as many women ever had the same thought about men, including you. Look up the statistics and you will see that women in the western world are doing better in every aspect of life. Just stop calling us ignorant and condescending us or go fuck yourself. You're everything you accuse men to be.
Either they're explaining or they're being condescending. Trying to make up a word for it specifically because it's a man being condescending is just asinine. Women can be condescending too, but if we said femsplaining, or got aggressive and made bitchsplaining popular, there'd be riots.
The definition of mansplaining is that it is in a condescending and patronizing way. But it isn't even a real word. It's a slang term that never caught on. I don't think anyone would be taken seriously if they said that during a serious conversation
https://youtu.be/TJyQpRfaGnw
Ahaha... Some people get bad attitudes. Personally, I try to say that I am checking my understanding.. but sharing information can be a loving act.. (regardless of the sex of the person) but I think it was a thing that the guy appreciated... Being told how things work... So he is trying to share that... Maybe nievly...
It's suppose to be when a man is explaining something to a woman that women generally don't know much about like cars, or electronics or something, but do so in a condescending manner that is borderline insulting to the woman's level of intelligents.
Unfortunately, modern extremist feminism has warped this into anything and anyway a man explains anything to a woman becomes automatically "mansplaining" and therefore also automatically derogatory, insulting and sexist which is complete nonsense.
Since I met my girlfriend 10 years ago, I have this running joke with her that she was born under a rock until she met me. Certain things that are pretty common things to know she has no clue about. For example, the term "you need this done yesterday" completely flew over her head. She sworn she never heard it before. She had no clue what the guy meant. Or certain cultural references like "it doesn't matter if you win by inch or a mile, winning is winning (places arms up in the air)" . So many times that this happens I have to explain what these references mean.
She stumbled into a mansplaining video in Facebook and said "hey, you do this!" Then I replied "fine, look like a clueless moron meanwhile everyone around you is laughing because they get the joke/reference. "
What you do isn't mansplaining. That's just plain explaining. Are you really surprised that your girlfriend missed yet another cultural reference? You need to explain mansplaining to her... it's so close to being ironic...
Are you womansplaining mansplaining?
Cuz I'm sensing some real irony here.
LMAO!
😂😂😂😂
A man can't know how a uterus works? I have and still teach women more about their sexuality than they knew prior. You're not going to believe me and that's fine but I've had more than one woman say it to me.
If a female doctor of prostate health hits me up should I just be like HA! Femsplaining!! You're a woman and can't possibly know anything about my prostate.
I suppose I have filed it in its jokey sense where certain stereotypical attributes of a group are parodied. My feelings on this once you are laughing "With" someone rather than "At" someone, its okay - Beyond that you move onto "Patronising" or "Offensive" behaviour which probably should be addressed seriously.
I think its a sexist term designed to dismiss a man's opinion and stop him from expressing himself.
And why do we need a gender specific term to accuse someone of being condescending. In my experience, women, especially feminists are just as likely, if not, more likely to be condescending when expressing their viewpoints.
Afraid Bandit74 is spot on here. I find the term sexist. Both men and wmen can be pricks, problem is I think society tends to let us guys get away with that more than it allows women to do so.
I use bitchsplaining... When a bitchy person tries to explain stuff to me and bores me to tears.
A 24 yo woman, licenced psychologist, did not know she had a urethra. She thought she was peing from her vagina and that peing help her clean her vagina from period blood. Was I 'mansplaining' to her, or just explaining? She also did not know that the sun was a star.
She's an idiot and that, to me, is not mansplaining, that is talking some sense into her. What I was referring to was a man who strongly disagreed when I told him my menstruation lasted for 6 days, claiming a menstruation can only last 5 days, and did not listen to a word I was saying. (I was the right one)
So if a male gynecologist were to explain something to you if you had an inflamed uterus, you'd cover your ears and yell mansplaining because he's a man talking about the female body? It's funny how people think they know more than someone because it affects them than someone who studied it in college and got a degree from it lol.
She didn't say it was a gyno just that it was a man.
I know, that's why I said "if." And besides that, you don't know another person's knowledge, so if you don't know solid facts/evidence about a certain subject or topic and don't know everything about it, how can you discredit another person just because of something trivial like their gender?
I think it's idiotically sexist. Woman inturupt me way more than any other sex with me. Inturupting is basically ones etiquette with speaking. It goes for both sexes, and shouldn't be categorized farther than being a rude little shit. But, that's just me.