Mansplaing mansplainers manipulating many. Say that three times fast!
The nickname itself can be broken down into two words: man explainers, men who explain things. There’s nothing wrong with men who explain things, people explain things to people all the time! However, mansplainers are on a whole other level. The act of mansplaining is explaining something from the perspective of a male person that absolutely no one asked for.
Examples? Men on Twitter attempting to tell women how their vaginas work. Now, anyone with common sense would know that if you do not actually posses a vagina (seeing as there are men who do) then you have no business trying to explain the way they work to people who do! Personally, I refuse to believe that every mansplainer in the world is a certified OBGYN therefore making it even more clear that they shouldn’t be telling me how my body parts work.
They don’t stop at carelessly yet aggressively explaining vaginas to women; they also enjoy explaining the general ideas of feminism to people who already know what feminism is– and it’s not what they’re trying to convince you of. Mansplainers can talk about all topics, that’s how diverse they are! From the anatomy and elasticity of vaginas to why all feminists are man-hating demons, they can cover it all. Sadly.
Unfortunately, you can’t actually avoid mansplainers; they’re everywhere. When you log onto Twitter, they sit in your mentions just waiting for something they can explain to you. When you walk into class, they’re peering over their textbooks waiting for you to raise your hand so they can aggressively yell they’re opinions at you. No matter where you go, there will always be at least one mansplainers. So how do you deal with them? You don’t.
It’s clear they don’t know what they’re talking about so why would you waste your time correctly explaining things to them? Most times they don’t want to listen so you should be spending your time on someone who does. If they appear in your mentions, casually flip your hair and laugh like you’ve just heard the funniest, most ridiculous thing. It shouldn’t be too hard. Mansplainers are like that god awful smell in your house that you can’t seem to locate or get rid of, so eventually you just get used to it and it doesn’t bother you anymore. Stop trying to get rid of the smell! Mansplainers aren’t going anywhere.
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