Mansplaining

[Grammarist]

Just had a discussion with the ever-lovely DH where I mentioned that a female friend of mine (an eminent Professor in her field) was a target of mansplaining via a live TV interview recently.

DH exploded at me. Mansplaining apparently isn't real and I shouldn't think that it is...

Hmmm.... I think he may be doing it to me. Dick

[araiwa]

Are only experts allowed to post?

[saccade]

• and, re your comment on 'agreeableness' - how are you defining 'successful'?

[BruceAndNosh]

I'm not sure about the precise meaning of mansplaining, but I know what a pompous git is

[picklemepopcorn]

How ironic.

[Soubriquet]

show him this

A man tried to mansplain a womans anatomy. And when proved wrong by a gynaecologist, insisted he was still right as it was more known as vagina than vulva and refused to accept he was wrong

[redexpat]

Shared wants an example of mansplaining.

www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/man-tries-to-explain-what-a-vagina-is-to-a-gynaecologist-it-does-not-go-well/

[redexpat]

X post Soubriquet!

[Soubriquet]

X post indeed

Great minds think alike

[CuriousaboutSamphire]

Oh.. as a corollary to saccades's post - if being agreeable = success then how does having less regard for others' feelings enabling them to make difficult decisions. square with that?

Agreeably lacking in empathy? Can't see that myself, but I suppose it does rely on your definition of agreeable.

[AintNobodyHereButUsReindeer]

Here is a good article about mansplaining, it's from 2016 but still relevant! (It's not a DM link)

[StreetwiseHercules]

“DH exploded at me. Mansplaining apparently isn't real and I shouldn't think that it is...”

Exploding is a ridiculous reaction. Did he really do this?

That said, “mansplaining” is a media construct which perpetuates divide and conquer. The fundamamental behind it is the concept that men are exclusively patronising towards women.

Anyone who thinks that’s true should try working where I work, or try being a man out and about in daily live with his children.

[Shoxfordian]

Here's some more examples from buzzfeed

www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/beatrizserranomolina/mansplaining-work-stories

Is your husband usually such a knob op?

[StreetwiseHercules]

“By putting 'man' in front of any adjective, you're making it sexist.”

Indeed. Using protective chracteristics as a pejorative obviously demonstrates prejudice and is quite wrong.

Anyone who chooses to overlook that because they quite like it is letting themselves down.

[maddening]

Sharedthismonth - are you male or female?

[Thegoodthere]

All the men getting their dicks in knots over this thread are hilarious.

Denying mansplaining while actually doing it.

[StreetwiseHercules]

@sharedThisMonth
😀

[StreetwiseHercules]

“All the men getting their dicks in knots over this thread are hilarious.

Denying mansplaining while actually doing it.”

Except that women are saying the same thing. Try again.

[SaturdayNext]

I love the bit in that article about mansplaining to a gynaecologist where Bullen says "But it is interesting that dictionaries do not record the broader meaning of vagina.". The gynaecologist says he's wrong, hundreds of owners of vaginas say he's wrong, even the dictionary says he's wrong, but all of that is just "interesting" and he's still right. Classic!

[CuriousaboutSamphire]

Is that what I said? If I did then it was a typo. Pretty clear if you read the rest of my post. It is. How a typo? I double checked that Saccade had quoted you correctly!

I still wonder at the cognitive dissonance of those two statements!

That last part was unecessary, don't you think? You could have made any point you wanted to without having to sneer!