David Mitchell sagt, der Begriff „Mansplaining“ sei unfair

It is just a conversation as he says, but let’s not beat around the bush, it is purely sexism.

Not so long ago, someone in our local Facebook group had someone elses parcel.

I wrote „Have you had a look to find the address and pop it round? This is what I do when I get someone elses parcel“.

The first response from the poster was „Yeah, no thank you for the mansplaining please“.

I feel I would have been banned from the group if the roles were reversed and I responded to a woman with „I don’t need advice from a woman“.

Am I going to have to mansplain to him what mansplaining is?

I personally find a lot of women use the word when a man explains anything, condescending or not. The term is so overused.

I’ve even been told I’m mansplaining when I’ve literally been asked to explain something.

Not sure if this is related but I have noticed that some women really hate any form of help from a man, they seem to assume they’re being treated different. What they don’t realise is that most men help each other out all the time, give each other a hand up, hold a ladder, help lifting something heavy. I’ve been in the fire service and it was certainly true there.

Mansplaining is a stupid term, I prefer the term “guys who talk down to people”. Those people certainly exist, I’ve know some guys who talk down to people, especially women, because they think they are better than them.

But I’ve also known plenty of women who talk down to men in the exact same way. I don’t understand why some people decide to gender it by calling it “mansplaining”. That’s just daft, people of any and all genders can be arrogant know it alls who see themselves as above other people.

The backlash against the all the -ism’s is gaining momentum

It’s only unfair when it’s used incorrectly by people who don’t understand the meaning of it

It’s one of those words that had a useful meaning at one point but now more often gets used to dismiss people out of hand

So he is a comedian and in part what he said was a joke, but he is right in that men do normally communicate with each other in this way. I’m sure there’s lots of social reasons behind it such as men’s worth being tied to how much they bring to the table (skills, money, influence, problem solving, etc.) and explaining something they know is literally just fulfilling that social contract and expectation.

Dismissing mansplaining therefore is a lot more damaging than it first seems. It’s essentially saying “the only thing that gives you value no longer gives you value”.

It’s always assumed ill or hostile intent, and I guess when you are fighting for value or recognition it can sometimes be that way.

We should probably work on deconstructing unnecessary gender roles or societal expectations rather than furthering them.

But I guess this will just come across as mansplaining and my desire for a kinder world will be mistaken as a hostile take over

I’m not even going to lie a lot of the comments on here from men are pretty funny because a lot of the time you don’t even realise you’re talking down to us- a lot of women will have the experience where you try to joke with a man and he explains it to you like you’re stupid instead, or he explains it in a way that he would never do to a fellow man. Obviously not all, but it happens and denying it because you as a bloke have never experienced it does no good either.

„I wouldn’t have to man-splain if you weren’t wom-incorrect“

David Mitchell says the term mansplaining is unfair. And describes why in under 25,000 words

I don’t mansplain- I’m patronising to everyone- it’s a character flaw rather than sexism

What started out as a man explaining something to an expert in that field / knows far more than the man – morphed into a word used negatively for a man just explaining something.

It’s safer just to explain stuff to men tbf half of our conversations are trying to say the last bit of a sentence to show we also know what we are talking about

Let’s face it. Most people think everybody else is stupid. Most people think they know more about ‘anything’ than everybody else. At least that’s the way it appears.

Mainsplaining. Womoaning

Using those worlds also a way to denigrate the opposite.

It’s only unfair when the term is misused. Mitchell is overlooking the sexism element when he says ‚mansplaining‘ is simply boring ‚conversation‘ that men do to other men too. Mansplaining only occurs when a man assumes, either consciously or based on unconscious bias, that a woman (who may have more experience than him) lacks knowledge/competence due to her gender. This is something frequently experienced by women in male-dominated professions. Obviously the mere act of explaining something to a woman is not sexist, and anyone who uses the term that way is simply wrong.

I adore Mitchell but if he has a flaw I can easily believe it being mansplaining. He loves things and he loves explaining things, it would be easy to cross over into condescension.

Tbf, for a comedian who’s entire shtick is acting irrationally frustrated and ranting condescendingly, this is an unsurprising headline

The term was invented to be divisive

We already had the perfectly adequate word patronise that anyone could use. The only problem with that word is that it can equally well apply to women and so a new word that could only be used against men got invented.

The word is sexist in its conception and use.

I was once accused of mansplaining by a date I had. She literally asked me a question and I gave my opinion speaking to her like I would anyone else. 

Needless to say, I left pretty quickly . Funnily enough she messaged me later asking for a second date. 

The thing I’ve learned most from this is that a lot of people can’t even agree what „mansplaining“ is.

Words like this are quite useful for detecting those infected with the mind virus. The quicker you can spot them the quicker you can make sure you isolate yourself from them. 

I love David Mitchell but have you fucking heard him talk about stuff? Of course he doesn’t like the term mansplaining, it’s basically his act.

The original defition for mansplaining is still valid by hopefully it happens a lot less. The ways it’s used by a lot of people these days is just casual sexism.

Man who loves to explain everything doesn’t like being told off for it lol.