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Yatima a piercing whistle of pure joie de vivre this week in mansplanation
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Posted in bookmaggot | Comments Off this week in mansplanation
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You might be a mansplainer if you respond to any comment about the unfortunate behavior of certain men with the knee-jerk mansplanation that all men do not behave this way, as if the original commenter had ever claimed that was the case.
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Bonus mansplanation points if the topic being discussed is one she researched for her Masters thesis.
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I think I heard what would count as a meta-mansplanation today: my child came home from the first health class on reproduction (it's middle school) and said that the (male) health teacher told the class that he finds that boys tend to know more about girls 'anatomy than girls do.
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I suppose there's a gap where my imagination meets my verbal filter, so quite often I'm too obtuse to realize that a question was rhetorical, or that my mansplanation is off-target or unwelcome.
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I don't like to consider myself a mansplainer, but the utterance of a mansplanation are at most time unconscious actions that seem to be the result of many years of social conditioning.
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My impression was not the thread was not "women only" but rather that it was not meant to be a place to discuss the existence/non-existence of mansplanation (perhaps I misread).
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Bonus mansplanation points if the topic being discussed is one she researched for her Masters thesis.
Logophile77 commented on the word mansplanation
The explanation of a man; see mansplain.
December 8, 2017