No, I get it that a term like mansplaining is problematic. It’s slang. It lightens the tension for people who have to deal with it, and it can educate people that such a thing exists. But all this indignation about a term being sexist? Welcome to our fucking lives, boys. If you want to eliminate sexist terms, I’m all…

Thanks. FWIW, I have to laugh at your statement that IT isn’t as complicated as what I do. From my POV, it’s waay more complicated. I’d be scared to death if some Star Trek situation came up and I suddenly had to man the IT station. The ship would crash for sure; end of series.

Yeah, still calling bullshit. Examples might help, though.

All these guys saying this happens equally to men and women, and equally from men and women: how do you know? Did you walk around wearing a dress one day? I guarantee you did not because women experience this from men waay more than men do from women. And when it happens, handling it is far more delicate.

Bitch is an ungendered term? It literally means a female dog. Ah, but when you use it it’s totally unoffensive. Jesus Fucking Christ, the women who have to work with you.

Wtf? Do you mansplain? No? Then this article isn’t about you. Do you need to deal with condescending people at work? Yes? Then apply the advice to your situation.

Who... are you talking to? You’re writing to a guy named Peter and telling him he’s womansplaining?

I think we all read the whole thing, if only to gape and point at his trainwreck of a management style.

Why didn’t you just shut Bob down and prevent the whole brouhaha?

Once upon a time? The term didn’t exist before 2008. And it still means what it’s always meant.

I’m gonna take a stab in the dark and guess you’ve been called racist, sexist, and bigoted a lot.

What I stated was the definition that I’ve gleaned..

Are you fucking kidding me? I thought it was weird that the article writer described her example twice, but now I realize she probably needed to describe it five or six times.

something, something, app.

It can’t just be that a dude is explaining something to a woman who happens to possess (but how could he know, because he just met her?) specialized knowledge about it.

You’re fucking quoting urban dictionary? A site whose content is populated by idiot teenage boys trying to make a point? Um, no, that’s not what mansplain means, ever meant, or ever will mean.

But I get the sense that mansplaining can basically be claimed to have occurred any time a man explains anything to a woman.

Or you could just pay attention and learn the definition.

Does it? Does it really? Despite the countless examples that are described to you? I suppose “catcalling” is also ungendered, as well as wages, reproductive rights, sexual assault, mass shootings, etc. etc. Any and all of these can be and sometimes are ungendered. But there’s a definite pattern that is definitely…

Please list all of feminism’s gendered insults next to a list of just regular everyday gendered insults for women. Column A would consist of “mansplain.” Column B would start with “womansplain” and then stretch to fill about a thousand cells.