Martin Freeman mansplaining on that Vodafone ad.

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Does it make anyone else want to punch the TV? I know it’s deliberate that he’s being a cockhead mansplainer but it really gets my goat. He does it so well

"Mansplaining" is just a sexist and inherently abusive word.

Stop using it OP.

when men stop doing it, i’ll Stop labelling it.

Abusive? Give me strength.

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"Mansplaining" is just a sexist and inherently abusive word.

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Couldn’t agree more. Whom ever coined the term mansplaining is an idiot.

It’s abusive to men who condescend and patronise women based on their sex, to label their sex based behaviour using the name of their sex. Right oh!

OMG my boss is a Mansplainer, the tosser.

I bloody hate that ad. I really hate it. He is patronising af. Its put me right off that actor! How is mansplaining a sexist term? It's a sexist thing to do.

I wonder if the grumpy previous posters are men explaining how the term mansplaining is sexist?

Hmmmmm

I wonder if the grumpy previous posters are men

Mansplaining isn’t a thing

Of course not. It never happens. Men don’t do this. It’s actually a female fantasy created by bored lonely women.

Mansplaining isn’t a thing

It's in the Google dictionary so I think it might be a thing. Whether you listen to women's lived experience of this and understand their interpretation of it might not be a thing.

In the ad he’s not really mansplaining, more squirming because he put his foot in it.

Before the squirming is the mansplaining. He thinks he knows better than the owner of the phone why she “doesn’t want to” share the video. And tries to tell her that.

Just putting this out there...

I believe MF is a bit of a cock in real life so it probably wasn't much of a stretch. Allegedly.

Mansplaning is definitely a thing. It's a uniquely male thing. Not all men...blah blah but definitely a very common very annoying thing. The only sexist thing about it is the men who do it.

I had a ladlecture just yesterday whilst I was unlocking my bike about the cycle culture in the UK compared to the rest of the world . I had to wildly look around me to see if there was an unseen presence that was only visible to him and there wasn't.

I must have one of those faces that looks like I'm looking for answers to questions I haven't actually asked yet as this happens to me a lot. And always men, sorry.

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Mansplaning is definitely a thing. It's a uniquely male thing.

Except that even the woman that coined the term says that its not "uniquely male"

That statue is awful. Look at the body language of the male Vs the female.

“Ladlecture”

😂

brilliant!

Oh, I’ve just realised this is what someone is doing to me 😮

How would you deal with this?

I work for the client, mansplainer works for me on approx a tenth of the project, he has never run a full project to the extent I do ( I can have over 20 teams at various stages of a job depending on size, he deals with one team and one aspect of many). He tells me how to deal with clients, problems that arise etc etc. He doesn’t do this to my male business partner! I need to be polite, how would you deal with him? I usually just mmm and mmm In polite places then get him off the phone and rant. It is a male dominated trade, I’m the only female generally that he would work with, all of my teams are male and it’s very rare I come up against sexist behaviour but it does happen occasionally ( I’d love more women, but I’ve not seen one yet! )

Red I would let him waffle on, then when he eventually finishes, say "Why did you think I didn't know those things?"

Of course mansplaining exists! It's a uniquely male socialised behaviour. There may be some women who engage in similar behaviour but they aren't mansplaining. The dynamic of man > woman is what defines the phenomenon.
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I wonder if the grumpy previous posters are men explaining how the term mansplaining is sexist?

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It's a perfectly valid word which sums up perfectly the experience of listening to a man state the bleeding obvious as if a woman is a complete idiot. The sexism resides in the man treating women like idiots on the basis of their being female.