… In case you needed it mansplained … I shouldve stuck to ballet … — Mansplaining

"Mansplaining is an everyday reality … Celebrities do it. Friends and family do it. Even world leaders like Jeremy Corbyn and Tayyip Erdogan do it."

"Russell: The Chinese have had a bug up their ass about the Dalai Lama since the 1950s, when they first drove him from his spiritual seat in Tibet. To them, hes a font of separatist rhetoric, hell-bent on breaking away from China, so it is indeed delicate. Elizabeth: [laughing incredulously] Are you really mansplaining Tibetan history to me?"

"Across social media, women have been encouraged to ask the men in their life how often they think about the Roman empire and to record the answer. To their surprise (recounted in videos posted all over TikTok, Instagram, and more), many men purport to think about the Roman empire quite a bit. … Presumably some of this is performative, an attempt to project oneself as the sort of history bro who can mansplain Catullus."

"It isnt that mansplaining doesnt still occur, rampantly. Its that the term has been thinned and flattened into political doublespeak, with alarming repercussions."

"The commonly cited birthday of the idea is 2008. That year, a portion of an essay by Rebecca Solnit, called "Men Explain Things To Me", appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Solnit didnt use the word "mansplain"; she merely, well, explained it, describing the time a man explained a book to her without acknowledging that she herself wrote it. (This August, she wrote that the men-explaining-things essay has been one of the most reposted pieces shes ever done.) According to Know Your Meme, the word first showed up online about a month after the LA Times piece, in the comments section on a LiveJournal community."

"Granted that we live in a world where societal and cultural discrimination make a mans voice powerful than a womans but isnt it time that men stop mansplaining ? Isnt it time that men stop mansplaining altogether?"