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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But it makes so much sense! It should also be filed with “The Ignorance Ploy”. We probably need a shortened term for that also….
If “the ignorance ploy” means that it’s when a woman feigns ignorance so a big-strong-man can come rescue/save/mansplain… I hate it already.
The “ignorance ploy” is when a man pleads ignorence about the smallest things so you will do them for him. Like putting away the dishes and leaving odd things on the counter claiming he doens’t know where they go. Or how to do the laundry correcty/use the machine/get the right amount of detergent/etc. He is hoping you will just do it because it’s easier that teaching him how to do it.
I really can spell! “Ignorance”, right? 😉