Hi there! See the comment I made on your facebook status? I know you didn’t ask for my opinion, but no harm in that, right? Now you’re a smart girl, but I just really wanted to make sure you knew about this one thing in particular. I hope I explained it thoroughly to you!
What’s that? Well, no, I’m not an expert on the subject I explained on your post. I read about it on the internet a couple times and just thought that it would be helpful for me to elaborate further.
Oh, that was your major in college? Well, okay, but…
Mansplaining?
You think I’m mansplaining? I wasn’t mansplaining, I just wanted to make sure you knew this one thing.:)
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Hold on, you don’t agree with me??? How on earth could I be MANsplaining? What a stupid term. I don’t see how any of this could be gendered at all. I know I’m a man, and that you’re not, but… I don’t see what that has to do with anything. I talk like this with all my friends, male or female, all the time! Does this mean that any time a man explains anything that he’s mansplaining? Look, I have a lot of female friends and I’ll have you know that I would consider myself an ardent feminist..in fact, I used to be kinda into you…..hehe…but you need to learn when you’re going too far! I hate that I’m scared to even try to be nice to you in fear of you saying I’m being offensive somehow…like, I’m offended that you’re offended. You’re making an argument against me for no reason when I’m just trying to be helpful. I am on your side! Stop living in your echo chamber and try the real world instead. This is why no one takes feminism seriously, and if you want that to change you better change your tone, sweetheart. Anyone with any ability to reason would look at this conversation and would see the pitfalls in your argument. This just is not mansplaining! Sometimes people are gonna give you unsolicited advice that assumes you don’t know very basic ideas, and you should be grateful for it, that people like to help you so much. You’re just going to have to understand how normal, everyday conversations work without getting super offended, goddamn.
–Stav, Senior Staff Member