Bustle Writer Womansplains How to Womansplain to Mansplainers

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'Think it’s obnoxious when men hold forth? The feminist response is to one-up them by giving them condescending reading assignments, argues Sadie L. Trombetta of the women’s website Bustle.

One way mansplaining manifests itself, Trombetta complains, is “a man proclaiming a woman is misinformed because she disagrees with him.”

Annoyed by this phenomenon, Trombetta has chosen not one but five books “to give the men in your life so you don’t have to keep explaining [mansplaining].” Those book recs, together, constitute more than 1,500 pages of reading.

We’d wager a hefty sum that no man who considers Trombetta misinformed has ever given her five books to remedy her supposed lack of knowledge.

Trombetta unintentionally reveals her double standard, in part by womansplaining mansplaining.

One of Trombetta’s recommendations is Men Explain Things to Me. The title is pretty self-explanatory, but Trombetta womansplains to her presumably female readers that it “sheds light on the phenomenon that is now commonly referred to as ‘mansplaining.’”'

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I think the "mansplaining" phenomenon is rather insidious. Oh, not the defined act of a man holding forth to another person of any sex. No, it's the phenomenon by which such an act is condemned. Speaking one's truth is a very empowering thing. We are all entitled at least to our opinions and to express same. If another chooses not to hear it, well, they need not stick around to listen. But to suggest that one is doing ill by expressing his ideas or opinions merely b/c he is a man and his audience is a woman... this is ludicrous. But feminists have realized that of late, men are no longer standing by idly as they get bashed. So increasingly we take to our own defense. Pops up suddenly is the accusation: "Mansplainer!" Now to feminists a man trying to state an opinion, most esp. an unorthodox one by feminist standards, it is an affront to femaleness. Incapable of arguing effectively against men's opinions on such matters, the Plan B strategy is to condemn the very act of speaking one's mind.

Vile. The vile stench wreaketh.

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