My partner is the breadwinner in our home. She has a quite on-the-cusp career and has had an upwards trajectory since... forever, always getting another rung up the ladder. Meanwhile I’m a non-profit person whose entire body of professional experience was wrapped up in the foreclosure crisis and since then, well,…

You invented the hysterical part. The accusation of mansplaining doesn’t require hysteria.

While I think the guy in the example the writer gave is an absolute dick, there are many instances where as a sales person I had to extremely simplify or dumb down details of something. Now this isn’t exclusively to women, but since these things are often tech related like benefits of new technology x, or the improved…

What if you think the single most important cause is that I’m male & you’re female, but I really just had a shitty night’s sleep & would be taking my lack of caffine out on anyone, and you just happen to be there?

I’m so old dude. Old as dirt, I made $.35 an hour in my first full time job. That’s $20 a week with overtime. People talked down at me, and not just men, women, in fact, were the absolute worst.

I wish there was some sort of lifehack to keep jezabel and root articles - on jezebel and root. I’m not even white and I’m barely a man but jesus christo where can I read about videogames and movies without this vilification by wrongful definition?

It’s a feedback loop. They can call someone for mansplaining and if the man does ANYTHING other than politely accept the accusation, they are then further guilty of mansplaining. It’s a tactic to control the interaction. The example above is simply patronizing condescension and happens all the time to men/women by men…

I am a male engineer who works with plenty of other male engineers and a few female engineers. Lots of people do this, it’s not exclusively something men do to women. Actually I mostly get it from sales people, they have the sort of ego and drive that has them talking over people a lot. It’s not particularly sexist,…

That’s not the definition of mansplaining as explained to me by so many women I’ve discussed it with. What you define in the first paragraph is just run-of-the-mill condescending behavior. Frankly, I’ve seen as much of that from women in the workplace as from men. I was under the impression that “mansplaining” is when…

This time on “A few men are assholes, ergo every man is an asshole.”

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