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Post by bathstoke on Jul 15, 2019 7:22:17 GMT
The term mansplaining was inspired by an essay, "Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way", written by Rebecca Solnit and published on TomDispatch.com on 13 April 2008. In the essay, Solnit told an anecdote about a man at a party who said he had heard she had written some books. She began to talk about her most recent, on Eadweard Muybridge, whereupon the man cut her off and asked if she had "heard about the very important Muybridge book that came out this year"—not considering that it might be (as, in fact, it was) Solnit's book. Solnit did not use the word mansplaining in the essay, but she described the phenomenon as "something every woman knows".
Discuss(because I would hate to be accused of mansplaining)
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Post by danceswithclams on Jul 15, 2019 12:25:07 GMT
It really fucks me off when you're trying to catch some rays on the beach and just watch the world go by and then some tiresome cunt starts zipping about in the sea making an awful racket on one of those infernal contraptions. If you want to do that then go to a specialist watersports centre and stop fucking up my lazy day on the sand. Mansplaining should be banned within 10km of public beaches.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jul 15, 2019 13:00:18 GMT
Condescending and patronising behaviours are not necessarily gendered behaviours. I work in a department full of women and I also get cut off and interrupted all the bloody time.
It's just another way to make oneself a victim.
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Post by kingdong on Jul 16, 2019 2:31:18 GMT
This never gets old!
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Post by Frogger Theft Auto on Jul 16, 2019 5:13:24 GMT
I’ve just heard a black woman on CNN use the term ‘whitesplaining’.
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Post by PotteringThrough on Jul 16, 2019 8:13:19 GMT
Sometimes, things have to be mansplained.
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 20, 2019 9:45:37 GMT
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Post by yeokel on Aug 20, 2019 10:08:01 GMT
How can a report written by “a prominent expert in happiness” be taken seriously when he (supposedly a professor) doesn’t even comprehend the difference between less and fewer? It’s like reading something written by EssexStokie
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Post by bathstoke on Aug 20, 2019 10:29:25 GMT
How can a report written by “a prominent expert in happiness” be taken seriously when he (supposedly a professor) doesn’t even comprehend the difference between less and fewer? It’s like reading something written by EssexStokie Oh Yes. How many pedants does it take to change a lightbulb? Less than you’d think...
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Post by yeokel on Aug 20, 2019 10:50:09 GMT
How can a report written by “a prominent expert in happiness” be taken seriously when he (supposedly a professor) doesn’t even comprehend the difference between less and fewer? It’s like reading something written by EssexStokie Oh Yes. How many pedants does it take to change a lightbulb? Less than you’d think... Ho ho. I can’t imagine a case where I would prefer inaccuracy to accuracy. We all have our standards.
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Oct 30, 2019 22:38:13 GMT
If accused of mansplaining does it mean that men can't speak?
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Oct 31, 2019 1:25:16 GMT
I was accused of mansplaining the other day.
I was careful not to "say" anything, I just asked questions:
What is mansplaining?
Isn't that just condescending questions?
Isn't that something that "all" (note PC) genders do?
Isn't that sexism?
And then my bezzo mate (female) at work still accused me of mansplaining.
Excellent way of shutting down debate for beta males.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2019 7:21:45 GMT
If accused of mansplaining does it mean that men can't speak? That’s embarrassing from the female Labour (?) MP.......
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Post by harryburrows on Oct 31, 2019 7:30:24 GMT
I was accused of mansplaining the other day. I was careful not to "say" anything, I just asked questions: What is mansplaining? Isn't that just condescending questions? Isn't that something that "all" (note PC) genders do? Isn't that sexism? And then my bezzo mate (female) at work still accused me of mansplaining. Excellent way of shutting down debate for beta males. You should be Alpha male 🐗
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Post by foster on Oct 31, 2019 7:53:08 GMT
I was accused of mansplaining the other day. I was careful not to "say" anything, I just asked questions: What is mansplaining? Isn't that just condescending questions? Isn't that something that "all" (note PC) genders do? Isn't that sexism? And then my bezzo mate (female) at work still accused me of mansplaining. Excellent way of shutting down debate for beta males. I think there are only 5 possible ways to react to that. 1) Stand down and take it (Pussy) 2) Tell her fuck off (Try to do it in a jokey friendly manner) 3) Retaliate with a sexist remark about Females (Not advisable as you lose the moral high ground) 4) Tell her to stop being sexist (Probably the best response) 5) Report her to HR for sexist behaviour (Make yourself look like a snowflake and lose the respect of your colleagues) It really depends on the relationship you have with the person and context. If someone said that to me at work I honestly don't know how I'd react. I know it would piss me off though as it's just another example of one rule for some and not for others. I can imagine that if a female at my work was persistently moaning and I related it to her gender ('time of the month' / 'womanswhinging') that it wouldn't go down well.
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Post by yeokel on Oct 31, 2019 8:07:57 GMT
I was accused of mansplaining the other day. I was careful not to "say" anything, I just asked questions: What is mansplaining? Isn't that just condescending questions? Isn't that something that "all" (note PC) genders do? Isn't that sexism? And then my bezzo mate (female) at work still accused me of mansplaining. Excellent way of shutting down debate for beta males. I think there are only 5 possible ways to react to that. 1) Stand down and take it (Pussy) 2) Tell her fuck off (Try to do it in a jokey friendly manner) 3) Retaliate with a sexist remark about Females (Not advisable as you lose the moral high ground) 4) Tell her to stop being sexist (Probably the best response) 5) Report her to HR for sexist behaviour (Make yourself look like a snowflake and lose the respect of your colleagues) It really depends on the relationship you have with the person and context. If someone said that to me at work I honestly don't know how I'd react. I know it would piss me off though as it's just another example of one rule for some and not for others. I can imagine that if a female at my work was persistently moaning and I related it to her gender ('time of the month' / 'womanswhinging') that it wouldn't go down well. I think asking her if she is being so rude because it is her time of the month would actually be quite a good response. It would certainly move the discussion onwards!
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Post by bathstoke on Oct 31, 2019 14:36:03 GMT
I was accused of mansplaining the other day. I was careful not to "say" anything, I just asked questions: What is mansplaining? Isn't that just condescending questions? Isn't that something that "all" (note PC) genders do? Isn't that sexism? And then my bezzo mate (female) at work still accused me of mansplaining. Excellent way of shutting down debate for beta males. I think there are only 5 possible ways to react to that. 1) Stand down and take it (Pussy) 2) Tell her fuck off (Try to do it in a jokey friendly manner) 3) Retaliate with a sexist remark about Females (Not advisable as you lose the moral high ground) 4) Tell her to stop being sexist (Probably the best response) 5) Report her to HR for sexist behaviour (Make yourself look like a snowflake and lose the respect of your colleagues) It really depends on the relationship you have with the person and context. If someone said that to me at work I honestly don't know how I'd react. I know it would piss me off though as it's just another example of one rule for some and not for others. I can imagine that if a female at my work was persistently moaning and I related it to her gender ('time of the month' / 'womanswhinging') that it wouldn't go down well. Womoaning...
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Post by Davef on Oct 31, 2019 14:46:56 GMT
If accused of mansplaining does it mean that men can't speak? That’s embarrassing from the female Labour (?) MP....... Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, wherever that is. Everything that's wrong about the left. And people like her don't even realise the damage they're doing.
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Post by Davef on Oct 31, 2019 14:52:01 GMT
They truly make me sick.
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Post by starkiller on Oct 31, 2019 15:09:43 GMT
Someone needs to mansplain to them that men have the vote too. And they ain't exactly appealing to them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2019 15:19:13 GMT
That’s embarrassing from the female Labour (?) MP....... Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, wherever that is. Everything that's wrong about the left. And people like her don't even realise the damage they're doing. I wrote about this recently, how the left has been divided between the classical left and the modern woke left, and how labour seems to have positioned itself on the "woke" side of that divide. The majority of ordinary working class left-wing people, who are the majority of the left, tend to be on the traditional side of that divide and weary to the direction the likes of labour have taken. With that in mind I think politicians like this woman are disenfranchising so many people and driving them into the hands of the right. Regardless of whether you're left or right, forget brexit or trump or aynthing like that, it's the fragmentation of the left that is the biggest shitshow in politics in recent years. For a democracy to be healthy and functioning you literally need some semblance of balance between right and left. But the majority on the left have been politically nomadised by, to borrow a term from the twitter thread, cuntsplainers like this lady.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2019 16:22:54 GMT
That reminds me. The wife's going on a plane tomorrow. She's taking quarter of an inch off the kitchen door!
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Post by Timmypotter on Oct 31, 2019 20:21:57 GMT
She has the worst manner of any politician I've ever seen and is the biggest offender in thinking that Islington is the UK. How can you turn up to an interview as shadow foreign secretary and complain about being asked questions on foreign policy issues?
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Post by salopstick on Oct 31, 2019 20:29:20 GMT
She has the worst manner of any politician I've ever seen and is the biggest offender in thinking that Islington is the UK. How can you turn up to an interview as shadow foreign secretary and complain about being asked questions on foreign policy issues? If there was a portillo moment on 13 December I hope it’s her.
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Post by marylandstoke on Oct 31, 2019 23:39:17 GMT
Sometimes, things have to be mansplained. Tell us more?
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