Mansplaining

[NewGrandad]

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Is mansplaining correct even when the man is right?

Or is this not a real journalist?

I thought mansplaining was more about the condescending attitude during the explanation.

Mansplaining is a portmanteau. The term refers to a situation in which a man, presuming that his listener (especially a woman) has inferior knowledge, explains something in a condescending way.

Okay? Got it? Do I need to go over it one more time?

To me mansplaining is when a man, in a condescending tone, explains something to a woman that she is an expert in or has more experience of. He does it because he thinks, even though she's the expert, he's cleverer than her anyway. Yes it counts if he's right, but they're so often wrong.

@AirBiscuit

It can be mansplaining if he condescendingly but correctly explains something when he has no reason to believe the woman doesn't already know it besides the fact that she's a woman. If the woman says something incorrect and the man explains why it's incorrect I wouldn't call that mansplaining even if he does it condescendingly.

I've had a man mansplain to me how to run a women's engagement group this week.