The other day my sister-in-law used the word “mansplaining”. My mother asked what that meant and I started to tell her before I even realized what I was doing.
That’s not mansplaining, that’s just explaining. Mansplaining is when you explain stuff to a woman you wouldn’t explain if a man was in their place. I.e. you start explaining car stuff to a female mechanic.
According to social media, mansplaining is any occurrence of a man explaining anything to anyone. Which makes sense I guess, I mean you can hear it in the name. But they fail to explain why we need to create gendered verbs. I thought gendered nouns (fireman etc) were already considered a problem.
Yeah well, nobody uses “mansplaining” that way unless they are insane. It has a specific meaning - which is a very annoying thing to experience. So unless someone considers every information attained from a man as “annoying”, “explaining” works well for that.
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