• @[email protected]
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    832 days ago

    It’s a portmanteau, actually. 👨‍🏫 A portmanteau is a word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words.

  • AItoothbrush
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    392 days ago

    Bruh i hate it so much when someone ASKS ME a question and when im explaining they say im mansplaining. Also apperently if youre an expert in a subject and happen to be man and explain something in that field to someone thats mansplaining.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 day ago

      Similarly, I hate it when you’re excitedly rambling on about your hobby and someone claims you’re mansplaning.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 day ago

      Early in my career (office job), I was standing in the cubes and 2 coworkers (a man and a woman, neither had children) were having a conversation about parenting, the man turns to me to directly ask me for my thoughts since I was the only one of us 3 who had kids (he said this out loud), and as I was answering, the woman interrupted me to complain that I was mansplaining parenting.

      She’s an outlier in that workplace though. Just a jerk.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 day ago

    My girlfriend is using the word “mansplaining” incorrectly and I don’t know what to do about it.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      23 hours ago

      I once heard a woman complain about another woman “mansplaining” depression to her. In my head, I was just “sure. whatever”.

  • Nat (she/they)
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    162 days ago

    I was always scared my infodumping would be called that. But now I’m socially transitioned so I can infodump to my heart’s content!

    • @horse_battery_staple
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      23 hours ago

      Can you explain socially transitioned to me? I could look it up myself but something tells me you’d like to explain it and I’d get a more nuanced take on it.

  • qyron
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    152 days ago

    Ugh… I can’t stand this. But Skeletor is just the right person to do it.

  • Caveman
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    132 days ago

    I’m a new dad and I get womansplained now a lot. “You need to tip the bottle so there’s milk in the nipple of it” was a recent one

    • @SarcasticCephalopod
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      213 hours ago

      My husband is a stay-at-home, homeschooling dad with LOTS of parenting experience, thanks to fostering for over 10 years and having six permanent kids between the ages of 11 and 31. We call it momsplaining when some other homeschool mom with only 1-2 kids tries to tell him how to parent our infant foster son.

  • @atomicorange
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    172 days ago

    Thank you. As the inventor of the term “mansplaining”, I had no idea and would have remained ignorant if you hadn’t explained this.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 day ago

    The body builder with claws and a skull for a face is the character, Skeletor from He-Man for those of you not aware. Or maybe you recognize him from She-Ra? Was Skeletor in She-Ra? I don’t know I never watched that show.

  • @Sanctus
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    142 days ago

    Mansplaining^2

  • @errer
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    62 days ago

    Is skeletor actually a male? Does he have a penis or is it just bones down there?