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Iaimtomisbehave
Rob, I would like to offer my sincerest contrafabularies on your stand against language abuse!
Samja192
Mansplaining used to just be called being condescending
ChrisTallant
English takes different parts of everything and smashes them into new nouns all the time. Ex: Crossandwich. Your move France.
vowofloudness
Did you mean Croissan'wich?
ChrisTallant
Whatever that breakfast sandwich at Burger King is.. lol..
mangoshapedspace
source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/27/mansplaining-manxiety-needs-fempathy-victoria-coren-mitchell
Kierbear2g
Says the guy using no punctuation and all caps.
VeganBeater
Zoinks scoob.
jeppsson
Stephen Fry on language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBOCHPCYnDw
idiotn00b
Stop manplaining about stuff. It's mannoying.
BayazTheBenevolent
You see the thing about fleebglarbing new words like that is that xeople often don't garbleblab what you mean.
GeoTeacher
I don't know why people keep trying to keep the English language "pure." It beats up other languages in alley ways for spare grammar
jeppsson
Its manbabaies looking for things to be offended by. Now its simple language that has gone too far!
aesthesia1
it's obviously a joke title
PizzaGovorun
What a load of muleshit!
PersonaAuGratin
https://az616578.vo.msecnd.net/files/2016/04/10/635958566731908986155015469_635958566415788502-1932797675_Mule_fritters.gif
commanderori
English beats up other languages in dark alleys and steals their words and grammar, it had it coming. Even if it's retarded.
iDigDinos
This is all just fucking bullshit psuedo garbage
Heliogabalus227
There are neologisms and there are word-bortions. This is the later. These people belong in word jail.
omnicorpse
In an age of gender fluidity, why does the media feel it need to genderise neutral words?
jeppsson
Am I the only one that sees the irony over how OP uses "philistine" to fight language and words? Anyone?
Disassembler
It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
Arsikere
as far as i am concerned, this kind of thing leads to people literally not being able to understand each other while speaking the same /
Arsikere
"language" technically
EvilKam
Holy fuck, SMBC had it right! http://joyreactor.com/post/2023636
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DrFrankenfurter
Yeah call it was it is: it's being condescending and everyone can do it
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DrFrankenfurter
Haha I like you
jeppsson
And since a lot of men often talk down to women, we now have a word for it. Thats how it works when something becomes common enough.
AmbiguousYes
Can someone spreadsplain this one to me?
Arsikere
splain'splain
RobertEmmet
I think it's saying men are anxious about proving themselves, so they mansplain out of insecurity, to demonstrate their value, without
RobertEmmet
meaning to be condescending, because they actually presume that they are below whoever's listening and need to prove their worth. So, I
RobertEmmet
think the article concludes, feminists would be better off investigating why guys feel compelled to mansplain and showing them empathy, than
RobertEmmet
they are when they try to cut guys off and deligitimize what they have to say by calling it mansplaining.
Chrombolio
There is a place for slang, cockney rhyming,for example. Playing with language is wonderful! But smashing bits of it about like above.. idk.
10ftmidget
Sometimes back doors need to be smashed in- especially if you've already ruined the front-hacking it with an axe like you were digging to Oz
Wander1236
What do you mean, what did English do to me? It's a Frankenstein's Monster of different languages and grammar structures.
DannyDLC
And just like in the book everybody only remembers the monster. Youre only the spark and we are the flame
EvenStevensEvenSemen
Truly, the global tongue
Sm9yCg
So by fucking up the english language, those wannabe-feminists fuck multiple languages at once?
jeppsson
The irony is how OP uses "philistine" to describe others when he is angry over evolution of words and language...
snurx
Lovingly created by three drunk blind guys with a German dictionary
cliojayne
Three drunk blind guys from different nations with a German dictionary
scopegoat
+1 for Frankenstein's Monster
suntoryhanzo
And one for you for saying that!
theuberkevlar
Lettify me understandiate this correcitically, peopelatrons are just makefying newstankled wordimongers with haphazardizition?
curtan309
Thanks Early Cuyler
Arsikere
because it's trendy and hip, yes
Addmagnet
Stanley Unwin?! Is that you??
epoke
"Men need empathy. In defense of men explaining things."
RobertEmmet
Not exactly. I think the title means, "Insecurity! Anxious desire to prove themselves motivates men to mansplain. Ladies, use your empathy
RobertEmmet
to learn why men do it, maybe they'll learn that they can stop. Meanwhile, using a sexist pejorative may galvanize men to be defensive."
Arsikere
maybe they'll not feel as threatened* ?
RobertEmmet
Yeah, exactly :)
Arsikere
as a writer: yes
HalfLife3LeadDeveloper
Stupid fucking feminazis. I wish real feminists were more vocal instead of these fucking lunatics.
jeppsson
You manbabies call everyone "feminazi". We dont give a shit any more. You go hysterical over everyday words now.
HalfLife3LeadDeveloper
I'm assuming you're one of them?
jeppsson
So you are what? Alt right?
HalfLife3LeadDeveloper
That's right. If someone is against the irrational type of 'feminists' they're now alt-right. Not surprised with your 'logic'.
jeppsson
You label normal people "feminazi" for no reason. Why should I make any other assumption? You overreact like a crazy, so what is the agenda?
howcanmirrorsbereal
Hey cis man-feminist here who likes vagina. I think you complain too much. Chill out and listen to the femmes.
cliojayne
*shrug* we're busy with other shit a lot of the time. We try.
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HalfLife3LeadDeveloper
"normal people" lmao
jeppsson
Or we dont call normal people "lunatics", and save that phrase for manbabies on imgur that gets offended by harmless words.
DoseOfScience
Anyone can frombulate a word, as long as it becomes cromulent, who cares?
tamerantong
Kippery wus my friend!
Arsikere
because language is now going along with pop culture at the same rate that pop culture is changing. it's like identity politics pounded /
Arsikere
15 red bulls and here is a result of that
bigertron
You've embiggened this post with your cromulent comment.
ShesMyWomanNordStyle
I wumbo that opinion.
Saric92
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--hsVknT1c0
Squanch
I don't give a squanch as long as its cromulent
10ftmidget
Some people get offended by a word that has no entomological connection to this racial invective, save for phonetical sound being similar.
WorkBeerRepeat
What in the world is mansplaining?
delecti
It's where a man explains something to a woman in a condescending way without having reason to think she needs the explanation to begin with
WorkBeerRepeat
Why is there a special word for being condescending?
delecti
Because it's a combination of factors that feels different than just being condescended to.
delecti
In particular that they don't have any reason to think you don't know what they're explaining.
Arsikere
something BuzzFeed thought up
outlierbabe
When I reach out for a brush in a store, & some man, uninvited, launches at me a treatise on how to choose brushes & how to paint. F*ckwad.
WorkBeerRepeat
Well yeah, he's a f*ckwad. But what does that have to do with a term about men?
outlierbabe
Perhaps no understand multiple unknown males do this to us all the doodah day. Miracle we manage to walk on hind paws.
WorkBeerRepeat
That sucks. It would really suck to be told you don't understand how certain things work or feel simply based on your sex. 1/2
WorkBeerRepeat
At least that's what some women have informed me throughout time. 2/2
outlierbabe
Thx. Like how every d*mn male in sight RUSHES over if I start to reverse--of course I need to be directed or I'll crash, every time. LMTFA!
Arsikere
EXACTLY
SherMattLockSmith
It is a term feminist use to shut down conversation and discourse when they feel a man is in any way saying they know more about a subject.
SherMattLockSmith
Instead of saying "hey, I don't appreciate being talked down to" they have to make it about sex and ostracize men instead of engaging them.
outlierbabe
Instead of saying "some women", you use "they" to unjustly castigate ALL of us, displaying your bigotry instead of engaging us.
howcanmirrorsbereal
Is this a joke? I’m a man an this is 100% mansplaining mansplaing
steazyae
When a guy explains something in a condescending way to a woman (i think. Honestly not a hundo % clear on that one)
GlitterInTheDarkNearTheTannhauserGate
Yep that's it, quite common in male dominated workplaces (IT, mechanics, engineering)
aussysadmin
Hey, I don't discriminate on gender, as far as I'm concerned everyone is an idiot unless proven otherwise. It's easier that way.
howcanmirrorsbereal
Just because you say you don’t doesn’t mean that society doesn’t.
aussysadmin
That’s a four year old joke, you can probably pretty confidently assume my position has shifted somewhat.
Arsikere
it seems to have gone from that to any instance of a man defending himself as a man in the face of accusations of "toxic masculinity" which/
Arsikere
that in and of itself is also pretty vague now too
howcanmirrorsbereal
It’s not vague. It’s pretty clear what’s toxic. Does it place masculinity on a hierarchy above all other things? If yea, then it’s toxic
RobertEmmet
This ^^ especially when she is an expert on the topic and he's still presuming she needs his explanation to understand the topic.
adobesubmarine
Yep. Because apparently we need to invent a word that implicitly disparages an entire gender instead of saying "sexist condescension."
howcanmirrorsbereal
I mean it’s to the point, and immediately addresses the patriarchal society we live in that allows that to happen.
EatingFiftyBagels
Ask a feminist what mansplaining is, and she will most likely explain it in a condecending way too
howcanmirrorsbereal
Oh fuck. We got a neckbeard here
Arsikere
yup