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- Mansplaining abstract "Mansplaining is a portmanteau of the words "man" and "explaining" that describes the act of a man speaking to a woman with the assumption that she knows less than he does about the topic being discussed on the basis of her gender. In 2010 it was named by The New York Times as one of its "Words of the Year." Mansplaining is different from other forms of condescension because mansplaining is rooted in the assumption that, in general, a man is likely to be more knowledgeable than a woman.The word is thought to have been first used in 2008 or 2009, shortly after San Francisco author Rebecca Solnit published an April 2008 blog post titled "Men Explain Things to Me." In it, she did not use the word mansplaining, but defined the phenomenon as "something every woman knows," telling the story of a man at a party lengthily describing to her a recent "very important" book, and needing to be told three or four times before taking in that Solnit was in fact its author. Mansplaining is rooted in a "presumption," Solnit wrote, "that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence."A month later the word mansplaining appeared in a comment on the social network LiveJournal, and its usage has grown since. Since 2010, journalists have described as mansplaining U.S. Republican politicians including then-presidential nominee Mitt Romney, then-vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Governor of Texas Rick Perry, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, and various characters on the HBO drama series The Newsroom.There has been disagreement among women regarding the usefulness of the term. Given its gender-specific nature and negative connotation, the word has been described by some feminists as being inherently biased, essentialist, dismissive, and a double standard. Some other feminists, however, find the term useful for exposing the ways that male privilege can manifest itself in social interactions. Still others argue that the term is too easily misunderstood and misappropriated and is therefore counterproductive in calling out problematic behaviour. The coinage of the term "womansplaining" to describe a woman interacting with someone in a condescending manner is evidence of this misappropriation.".
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- Mansplaining subject Category:Sexism.
- Mansplaining subject Category:Words_coined_in_the_2000s.
- Mansplaining comment "Mansplaining is a portmanteau of the words "man" and "explaining" that describes the act of a man speaking to a woman with the assumption that she knows less than he does about the topic being discussed on the basis of her gender.".
- Mansplaining label "Mansplaining".
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- Mansplaining wasDerivedFrom Mansplaining?oldid=604393409.
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