Is ‘mansplaining/mansplainer’ a bad term in the workplace?

[DesireLight]

I know it’s not exactly a nice word but if you know of a colleague ( 60 years old man) who is patronising and re-explains things to competent women colleagues (and/or defaults to saying no if the woman says a point but then basically says the exact same thing she did but with other words) yet has conversations on an equal footing with men colleagues, is it incredibly bad to call him a mansplainer?

I do understand the gender discrimination undertone of it if you were to really analyse it.

I would call him a knob.

It is an offensive term so not appropriate in the workplace regardless of what you think of the guy.

I wouldn't use it in a work setting. I would call him a misogynist and tell him to mind his manners!

If this is recurrent behaviour it needs to be escalated to the manager. Name-calling (however justified it is!) is likely to result in a complaint about you.

Thanks everyone so far

I don't criticise anyone in the workplace using words that relate to their body. Nobody's having blonde moment, nobody is a mansplainer. Somebody may be being dippy, somebody might be being a know-it-all. That's it.

I think it's offensive. Better to just describe the behaviour and state simply why it is a problem.

I agree , it's not a term I would use in a work environment.
I would tell him kindly at first that I understood what was been said so he doesn't have to explain it to me again .
If he repeatedly explains things after this I would be much firmer.
A third time and I would beat him to the punch and re-explain what the first person said to him .
So it would go ;
thank you for explaining Bob but I understood the sales figures .

Bob , I heard him clearly and I know what I am doing , you do not need to reiterate what has just been said.

Hey Bob, you obviously don't understand what has just been said regarding sales so I will explain it to you . . . . . Queue the very detailed explanation.

yep - mansplainer is a derogatory term and shouldn't used in the work place.

The man's behaviour should be challenged, but not by using that term.

Simply point out that he is parroting what a woman has just said.

Try, 'yes that's what X was trying to tell you'.

You could also point out to him that he doesn't seem to listen to all his colleagues in the same way, and he might want to fix that, because otherwise it might come off as sexism.

No..

My. Husband refers to himself as a mansplainer at times and also complains when he gets manspained!!

They know whay they are doing and need to own it.

Someone can refer to themselves as stuff, eg I’ve heard people call themselves an idiot when they’ve messed sth up. The crucial difference is that what’s appropriate in the workplace is different from what you say around family/friends/to yourself.

I have said in my own workplace in the past, with an icy lift of my eyebrow, 'Yes, well, Tim, that is the kind of condescending behaviour that would be termed "mansplaining" outside the work environment. Now, moving swiftly on...'