What are you talking about? I’ve witnessed it several times now at work, especially regarding programming or EE. Have you not yet suffered through a programmer condescendingly explain trivial matters to others, especially to women?
The post is obviously a hyperbole but it’s not too far off from reality.
Who’s obsessed? It’s a joke about a dude attempting to man-splain even when they’re wrong (I’m a dude and I’ve definitely seen it) and her turning the tables on him. That’s it. To get defensive about that is… weird.
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”
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.
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.
Yeah nice but why are you people so obsessed with men explaining things to women or vice-versa?
What do you mean “you people”?
Probably the crowd that uses the term ‘mansplain’.
I don’t think anybody is obsessed with it. It’s a problematic behavior in many men, enough so that it’s become a meme, particularly in the US.
Or so you are made believe. How many times have you experienced it?
What are you talking about? I’ve witnessed it several times now at work, especially regarding programming or EE. Have you not yet suffered through a programmer condescendingly explain trivial matters to others, especially to women?
The post is obviously a hyperbole but it’s not too far off from reality.
Who’s obsessed? It’s a joke about a dude attempting to man-splain even when they’re wrong (I’m a dude and I’ve definitely seen it) and her turning the tables on him. That’s it. To get defensive about that is… weird.
More like the author is so insecure herself that she feels forced to use these terms in the belief that they somehow strengthen her position.
Or… Just maybe… It’s a joke and it’s just trying to be an even more absurd take on the original gnu+linux copypasta
Yep, this is more of the weird defensive attitude. Thanks for another example.
Quite right. The joke works even without the „woman good/man bad“ subtext.
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”
So stereotyping gender is back on the menu? Are hair color jokes still taboo?
Men try not to be mad they’re the butt of a joke challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
So “it was only a joke” is also back on the menu? Wow, times are rolling back fast!
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.
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.