Exposing The Term Mansplaining

In this video, we're going to discuss the term "mansplaining." Mansplaining is a term used to describe the act of a male person explaining something to a female person in a condescending way.

This video is aimed at educating people about the term and the experience from the male perspective. Why people often misunderstand what is happening, with "mansplaining."

[amberowens]

I constantly say "I get it" as a term of "skip ahead"... He continues anyway

[sunfIwer]

I am the only woman in my department. Men feel the need to explain basic things to me like how to sweep "correctly"

[DanaMyersKJQ]

I was given an androgenous name at birth. In the late 1980s on Usenet, aka newsgroups, (it was the social media of the Internet back then), I was sometimes assumed to be a woman because of my name. I've definitely experienced the condescension of what we call "mansplaining", it was always funny how much the tone changed when I dropped a hint or flat-out stated I'm a male (the love letters were amusing, too - I learned to say I'm flattered but no thanks, we have more in common than you assumed). Simply reminding them I was a male changed the conversation dramatically. It's sweet you think it's caring to take your time to patiently explain things to people as if they are children, but I learned even children don't appeciate that kind of caring.

[Levi-zhks]

Everytime a woman says I’m mansplaining I wait until she’s explaining something to me and I say your womansplaining

[tobbseever]

Mansplaining means, if you immediately assume the other person does not know as much as you think is needed, just because she's a woman. And you dont care if its really helping. You only care to impress.
That is meant by mansplaining.

[hdeutsch]

Total bs. I have said plenty of times, "yes, i know, " just to have a man cont as if ive said nothing. So dont twll me that we just sit there...try listening, dear.

[ForeverDyingRainbow]

I’ll tell you right now people pick on men enough for just being themselves

[jacintheturcotte]

Ah ah ah… had such a good laugh listening to you with your ‘man knows it all explanation’.. 😅. Very simple by the way!!

[jaredhinman]

I use to do telephone tech support. My female colleagues suffered mansplaining on a daily bases. I once saw a guy explain to a group of women why they don't want pockets in there clothing.

[shrutika]

I disagree. Men do not try to understand first if the other person is even aware or does not know anything about the topic. They just start bombarding information right from scratch. Men need to understand where is the information lapse is, how much the other person is educated or informed about the topic and then explain, if required, or share their inputs. I have been at the other end multiple times and it is frustrating. Not everybody is living a life in ignorance. And let's say at one point of time, the same person is completely uneducated about some topic, it doesn't mean that they are uneducated in all topics.

[amberowens]

As a woman, I usually start informative sentences with, "sorry if I'm telling you something you already know..." when explaining things to men, I find it helps with ego

[geraldineberish]

Maybe there is more to it than he thinks. Maybe it is about assuming the other person doesn't know and needs to be taught which is condescending. Also, there are men who always assume that women don't know and will explain but don't have that same assumption for men so women find these men insulting. Sometimes there is a tone of arrogance that goes along with it. Granted that some men who mansplain are the same with males and females, but we have seen how some men talk differently to women. I see less of it today than when I was younger but it still exists

[laurenross]

how about the time a male bartender asked me (waitress) to cut some lemons. I hesitated giving a response so he followed with ‘the yellow ones’ ????

[AngelaCSpears]

So the man explaining to the lady who worked at NASA about how to do her job was being helpful? While I will agree that there are those who misunderstand the term and think it applies to a man explaining things that are not known to the other person, the proper definition is when a man is explaining something to someone who often has a better knowledge of it than the speaker.

[kiwik]

As an autistic female raised by a single dad, this happens all the time to me. I over explain, just wanting to share my knowledge (love), and end up making people grumpy with me because they have fragile egos. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[fiyawerks]

sometimes its hard to tell the difference between people being genuine and then some people explaining things out to scoff, theres two types of guys that'll do this out there boys, be sure to be the first one always

[coleyoung]

Nobody wants you to solve their problems for them unprompted. Not just women, all people don’t like mansplaining because it stems from an assumption that I know more than you or I would have already handled this situation. These ‘women’ you speak of just want to be heard and by ‘solving’ their problem you are not helping. Like you said, it feels good to solve someone’s problem and that is because it is an ego-serving action. Just imagine if you raised your child like this. You would deprive them of the opportunity to problem solve and think critically and your child would become dependent on you to solve their problems.

[admirallily]

You’re half right dude. The real problem with mansplaining is the tone and vibe. I can tell you I’ve experienced the difference and even when I do say “yeah yeah I got it” some guys don’t believe me and continue with a patronizing tone. So, you’re not exactly right here.

[kiwik]

Look for the heart message. He is doing something for you that he appreciates being done for him; being calmly and rationally spoken to.

[cmills]

Yeah, that’s not my experience as a woman. I’ve been mansplained how to do my own job in a way that completely hampered me from doing my job. As an example, I had to give a “No, I’m good. If you can please move out of my way so I can unload this tractor trailer with my forklift…” Because I didn’t need freaking instructions on how to unload deliveries like I did every single week managing a small business. Unsolicited instructions are not welcome, and hindering and hampering is especially unwelcome.