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		If you've been seeing the term "mansplaining" lately and are confused or irritated by it, let this article womansplain it to you (jezebel.com)		305
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DanZero		2012-09-13 08:19:37 PM

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier		2012-09-13 08:22:05 PM

Someone better A'splain quick!

Mugato		2012-09-13 08:27:27 PM

Is there a trendy term that means "stupid biatch making up words for their deeply insightful blog"?

GAT_00		2012-09-13 08:32:51 PM

Uh huh.

Look, if you don't want to hear about why the coach is an idiot to attempt a screen on 3rd and 15, then don't watch football with us. Or, learn about football and get a discussion.

vudukungfu		2012-09-13 08:40:05 PM

How about 'spaining where my GODDAMNED SAMMICH is?

Richard Saunders		2012-09-13 08:40:50 PM

If they've got time enough to create words like "mansplaining," well... it tells me there's not enough sammiches bein' made.

Chop, chop, baby... chop, chop.

/bring me a beer

thomps		2012-09-13 08:43:50 PM

aw that article was adorable, good for you. have your husband show you how to print it out so you can scrapbook it!

vwarb		2012-09-13 08:45:12 PM

Hey look, a second wave feminist! A rare sighting indeed. Shame she makes the third wavers look bad.

Lsherm		2012-09-13 08:47:17 PM

Mansplaining is about a very specific instance of "privilege and ignorance... when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate 'facts' about something you know a hell of a lot more about than he does."

Jezebel columnist Hugo Schwyzer

I didn't realize Hugo was a female name. This was clearly written by someone who has never been asked to load the dishwasher "the right way."

Apos		2012-09-13 08:56:03 PM

What an asinine synonym for male patronization.

RexTalionis		2012-09-13 08:56:08 PM

Well, that was five minutes I'll never get back.

/Why do men and women delight in making shiat so complicated?

GAT_00		2012-09-13 09:01:38 PM

RexTalionis: Well, that was five minutes I'll never get back.

/Why do men and women delight in making shiat so complicated?

Because otherwise life is boring?

NowhereMon		2012-09-13 09:07:04 PM

Is mansplaining telling your wife what kind of sandwich you would like?

tallguywithglasseson		2012-09-13 09:10:46 PM

I'd only heard it used to describe the dialogue of the main character in the TV show The Newsroom, towards the various female characters in that show.
Only watched the first episode but it seemed to make sense in that context. Come, dumb females, let me mansplain this to you.

Mugato		2012-09-13 09:12:00 PM

I think this gal is engaged in coontnagging.

/that's filtered

Rusty Shackleford		2012-09-13 09:14:32 PM

Soundtrack for this thread. You're welcome, babe. *Winks, makes pointy gun gesture*

AbbeySomeone		2012-09-13 09:35:11 PM

Men are frequently useful and docile creatures but sometimes lack basic recognition skills. The must be dealt with firmly and with a calm, encouraging voice. Simple details are the best.

GAT_00		2012-09-13 09:37:00 PM

AbbeySomeone: Men are frequently useful and docile creatures but sometimes lack basic recognition skills. The must be dealt with firmly and with a calm, encouraging voice. Simple details are the best.

Hey! I am not really all that docile.

AbbeySomeone		2012-09-13 09:39:21 PM

GAT_00: AbbeySomeone: Men are frequently useful and docile creatures but sometimes lack basic recognition skills. The must be dealt with firmly and with a calm, encouraging voice. Simple details are the best.

Hey! I am not really all that docile.

That's just fine Dear, you know you are loved for your special worth anyhow.

doglover		2012-09-13 09:47:06 PM

Would Frank Sinatra say or listen to "mansplaining" at all? No? It's DOA. Put it in the pile with Milhouse memes.

GAT_00		2012-09-13 09:50:36 PM

AbbeySomeone: GAT_00: AbbeySomeone: Men are frequently useful and docile creatures but sometimes lack basic recognition skills. The must be dealt with firmly and with a calm, encouraging voice. Simple details are the best.

Hey! I am not really all that docile.

That's just fine Dear, you know you are loved for your special worth anyhow.

I'm special!

Ed Finnerty		2012-09-13 10:27:35 PM

snuff3r		2012-09-13 10:33:11 PM

Ed Finnerty: AbbeySomeone: Men are frequently useful and docile creatures but sometimes lack basic recognition skills. The must be dealt with firmly and with a calm, encouraging voice. Simple details are the best.

Yes, dear.

i.chzbgr.com

Spoon over Marin		2012-09-13 10:37:55 PM

feminism thread?

thomps		2012-09-13 10:49:21 PM

Spoon over Marin: feminism thread?

this being fark, i'm going to go with misogyny thread.

GAT_00		2012-09-13 10:53:41 PM

thomps: Spoon over Marin: feminism thread?

this being fark, i'm going to go with misogyny thread.

They're the same thing.

thomps		2012-09-13 10:57:10 PM

GAT_00: thomps: Spoon over Marin: feminism thread?

this being fark, i'm going to go with misogyny thread.

They're the same thing.

they only seem that way to women, who are too stupid to understand nuance.

Generation_D		2012-09-13 11:01:43 PM

Spoon over Marin: feminism thread?

train wreck.

penthesilea		2012-09-13 11:09:09 PM

A condensed example of some mansplaining:
(edits are my own)

[...snip...] "So? I hear you've written a couple of books."

I replied, "Several, actually."

He said, in the way you encourage your friend's seven-year-old to describe flute practice, "And what are they about?"

They were actually about quite a few different things,[...snip...]

He cut me off soon after I mentioned Muybridge. "And have you heard about the very important Muybridge book that came out this year?"

So caught up was I in my assigned role as ingénue that I was perfectly willing to entertain the possibility that another book on the same subject had come out simultaneously and I'd somehow missed it. He was already telling me about the very important book -- with that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth, eyes fixed on the fuzzy far horizon of his own authority.

[...snip...]
So, Mr. Very Important was going on smugly about this book I should have known when Sallie interrupted him to say, "That's her book." Or tried to interrupt him anyway.

But he just continued on his way. She had to say, "That's her book" three or four times before he finally took it in. And then, as if in a nineteenth-century novel, he went ashen. That I was indeed the author of the very important book it turned out he hadn't read, just read about in the New York Times Book Review a few months earlier, so confused the neat categories into which his world was sorted that he was stunned speechless -- for a moment, before he began holding forth again.

source and full article

doglover		2012-09-13 11:15:20 PM

Patronizing. The term is patronizing.

1. It's easier to say.
2. It's a real thing.

Beerguy		2012-09-13 11:24:55 PM

Written and Narrated by my buddy Marlon (the guy who played "Rufus" on Entourage).

Free audio sample here Link

Carousel Beast		2012-09-13 11:33:34 PM

I bet the author claims misandry doesn't exist.

Ikam		2012-09-13 11:34:17 PM

doglover: Patronizing. The term is patronizing.

1. It's easier to say.
2. It's a real thing.

Thank you. I just heard the term 'mansplaining' last night and that was my initial reaction to it.

/stupid article is stupid

onyxruby		2012-09-13 11:36:00 PM

Guy who wrote this article is a professional troll that write a series of Jezebel about how horrible men are. Look at some of this guy's other work and you'll see some really whacked out stuff.

/Don't feed the trolls.

miss diminutive		2012-09-13 11:36:00 PM

Generation_D: Spoon over Marin: feminism thread?

train wreck.

mantrain manwreck.

/mancan manmake manup manwords mantoo

Eustacia Vye		2012-09-13 11:36:06 PM

doglover: Patronizing. The term is patronizing.

1. It's easier to say.
2. It's a real thing.

Yes and yes. I hate neologisms and "clever" portmanteaus.

wantingout		2012-09-13 11:36:22 PM

Spoon over Marin: feminism thread?

only if they're sewing!

quickdraw		2012-09-13 11:37:45 PM

doglover: Patronizing. The term is patronizing.

1. It's easier to say.
2. It's a real thing.

Its not the same. "Patronizing" has other connotations that make it sound more positive. I patronize the grocery store on a regular basis and they like it.

The All-Powerful Atheismo		2012-09-13 11:38:20 PM

Generation_D: Spoon over Marin: feminism thread?

train wreck.

Redundant

FishyFred		2012-09-13 11:38:22 PM

Apos: What an asinine synonym for male patronization.

I can see from this thread that it really struck a nerve.

SomethingToDo		2012-09-13 11:38:52 PM

Lucy, you got some splinin' to do

/Lucy manufactures driveshaft parts

Thanks for the Meme-ries		2012-09-13 11:39:12 PM

vwarb		2012-09-13 11:40:22 PM

Rusty Shackleford: Soundtrack for this thread. You're welcome, babe. *Winks, makes pointy gun gesture*

That guy has no lips. WTF.

fluffy2097		2012-09-13 11:41:06 PM

so, apparently you are mansplaining if

1: You are explaining something to a woman and she already knows it.
2: You try and prove that you know what you are talking about and a woman does not agree.
3: You aren't listening.
4: You try and make a general observation about women.
5: The author of the Article is jealous of your penis.

What tripe.

If someone is being an asshole or an idiot, call them an asshole or an idiot.

Old Smokie		2012-09-13 11:41:49 PM

I didn't realize Hugo was a female name. This was clearly written by someone who has never been asked to load the dishwasher "the right way."

Perhaps he should learn to load a dishwasher. Cuz writin' ain't workin' out.

Zarquon's Flat Tire		2012-09-13 11:42:32 PM

Someone is biatching.

ZipSplat		2012-09-13 11:43:28 PM

This annoying bullshiat has been popping up in the atheist/skeptical community lately as well. Apparently "feminism" and "social justice" mean "scapegoating white 'cisgendered' males for one's personal inadequacies and creating gender-specific terms (like 'mansplaining') for generic human traits".

It's f*cking dumb and counterproductive. Reading the nascent Atheism Plus forums is an awful experience.

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