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[-] nicknonya 35 points 5 months ago

mansplaining, noun:

Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning "(for a man) to comment on or explain something, to a woman, in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner"

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 16 points 5 months ago

Thank you. As a sentient cleaning robot running GLaDOS, I needed context.

[-] Tobberone@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

So stereotyping gender is back on the menu? Are hair color jokes still taboo?

[-] lone_faerie 10 points 5 months ago

Men try not to be mad they're the butt of a joke challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[-] Tobberone@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

So "it was only a joke" is also back on the menu? Wow, times are rolling back fast!

[-] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

It's not meant to be a stereotype applied to all men, just the a thing that some men do. It happens when a man assumes, perhaps subconsciously, that the woman he is speaking to is his intellectual inferior and would surely benefit from his opinion on whatever topic without any regard to her possible expertise on the topic, or even his own lack thereof. I've rarely witnessed it myself, but know women who have had to put up with it. Stereotypeing all men as "manslainers" would be rude, but mocking the men who actually behave that way is cool with me.

[-] Tobberone@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Even the term itself is a generalising stereotype. But it we are to have a somewhat serious discussion about it, I'd say It's a human condition, not a gendered condition. For example, given what is (not) known about our respective genders, you felt the need to explain this.

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