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Ricki Farn Germany Local time: 21:46 English to German
Momsplaining
Apr 5, 2017
My mother does it all the time, too.
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EvaVer (X) Local time: 21:46 Czech to French + ...
Mine used to, too,
Apr 5, 2017
but typically men do that. My husband has very little education, but he will pick up something he heard somewhere (even if it's complete nonsense) and hammer it to me.
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Mario Chavez (X) Local time: 15:46 English to Spanish + ...
Momsplaining
Apr 5, 2017
Ricki Farn wrote:
My mother does it all the time, too.
Hahahahah, Ricki! You win the Internet today!
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Mario Chavez (X) Local time: 15:46 English to Spanish + ...
Typically? 😏
Apr 5, 2017
EvaVer wrote:
but typically men do that. My husband has very little education, but he will pick up something he heard somewhere (even if it's complete nonsense) and hammer it to me.
This reminds me the “People are…” statements I hear or read, simple generalizations about the other we don't like but which reflect a truth about ourselves.
For example, if I'm driving down the road and someone gets in front of me without signaling, I would tend to say “[some] people don't know how to change lanes!” all huffy and puffy. In reality, I sometimes do the same thing. Amazing!
Same with this feel-good, it's-someone-else's-fault neologism, mansplaining, to project our frustrations onto the opposite gender (or sex) when we (some women, not all) feel talked down, interrupted, condescended or otherwise rolled over by some unfounded, silly or unsupported explanation or jabbering.
😇 🤓
Full disclosure: I'm a man, so you could say I'm “mansplaining” my point. 😅
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Serena Basili Belgium Local time: 21:46 English to Italian + ...
"Momsplaining"...that's hilarious!!
Apr 5, 2017
If one pays more attention, "mansPLAINing" actually means "man being so plain (insignificant) that needs to validate his unsolicited opinion shutting up a woman more competent than him".
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Merab Dekano Spain Member (2014) English to Spanish + ...
Research...
Apr 5, 2017
Research showed that...
Well, that one has no gender; both men and women use it. Most of the time there is no research at all.
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Mervyn Henderson (X) Spain Local time: 21:46 Spanish to English + ...
A live one
Apr 5, 2017
How one woman (and two men, admittedly) deal with it when it happens
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