Dec 04
Ah, mansplainers: Men who must explain “difficult” topics to women because, duh, we just don’t get them.
While the phenomenon is much older than its recently coined nickname, the moniker was formally introduced to America’s lexicon in Rebecca’s Solnit’s 2008 essay, “Men Explain Things to Me.” It was also hilariously catalogued by writer Sarah Jaffe in her Tumblr, “A Taxonomy of Mansplaining.” In August, Oxford Dictionary even validated the word by adding it to its online database.
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