Mansplain

Category: dribblings

So I kept hearing people (on the internet) use the term mansplaining/mansplain and I didn’t know what it meant. I’m not stupid, mind, I figured it was man + explain. So then I figured it was when you have to explain something to a man maybe you use words like beer and fire so they get it. And trust me, I thought that was rude.

I was scared to google it because mostly when I hear a new word or phrase and google it, it’s something terrible that I wish I’d never heard of (donkey punch) and once you google it, it can never be ungoogled. Curiosity won, and I did google it. And turns out I had it backwards. There were several different definitions, but they all agreed that it’s when a man explains something and treats the explainee in a condescending way.

File this under: Douchebaggery

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