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Daily reminder that mansplaining isn’t:

• a friendly exchange of information between two people

• someone explaining something they’re good at to someone who isn’t (and expressed the desire to learn something from this particular field in this particular moment)

• an answer to someone’s question

Friendly reminder that mansplaining is:

• a man who spontaneously explains a basic word or concept to his interlocutor(s), thus speaking longer than them and acting like the superior one, often by interrupting his interlocutor

• creating or enforcing a balance of power; a mansplainer only acts that way towards people that he perceives as “inferior” (because of their gender, race, and/or social status)

• which means that a mansplainer is 100% aware of his behavior since he wouldn’t even think about mansplaining someone who he thinks is superior to him

• bonus point if he mansplains oppression to any member of an oppressed social group which he doesn’t belong to

• add like 10 bonus points if he tries to justify the splaining by saying that his point of view is “neutral and objective”

Have a nice day and feel free to punch any ‘splainer in the face.