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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 103 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's a portmanteau, actually. πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« A portmanteau is a word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks mister male!

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a more accurate comment, you can tell because the spelling is correct and the content is plausible.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ah man, I was hoping someone would explain the explanation of the explanation for some laughs... But noooooooooo.....

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think that makes the meme more accurate, it's almost not mansplaining if it's not also subtly but confidently wrong.

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey now, mansplaining does have its uses..

Mansplaining Now Tops Condoms as Most Effective Contraceptive

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

(Fyi condoms are not the most effective)

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Which on is (apart from mansplaining)?

Spiral?

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

From the comments so far: being an ugly gay man with a vasectomy.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

Homosexuality

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[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

βœ‚οΈ

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 45 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 25 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 16 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] HoMaster@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

Shut up penis!

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

But then you get to mansplain mansplaining! That's my hobby. My daughter loves it.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] HoMaster@lemm.ee 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How rude of them to explain to you how to properly feed whiskey to a baby.

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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.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My girlfriend is using the word "mansplaining" incorrectly and I don't know what to do about it.

[–] noisyboy@reddthat.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe you can explain the correct usage to her.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In public I present as my correct gender, I am no longer hiding it nor in an in-between state.

Hope you feel more like you.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Mansquaring

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] errer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

What is it to you? Why are you questioning the arch-enemy of Eternia?

[–] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

C'mon now, you are on 196 you should know penis β‰  man

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

He doesn't have anything there since he's a skeleton, and humans don't have bones in their genitals

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Was skeletor born a skeleton?

[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Perhaps Obelix fell into the Genderfluid?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Mansplain Manipulate Male-pattern baldness

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

He made brief appearances, I think. She-Ra is He-Man's sister who lives in another dimension, and I vaguely remember occasional crossovers. Hordak was her regular big-bad, though. I'm sure there's a MotU nerd in here somewhere who knows better than me.

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Did you just skeleplain mansplaning to me?

I just don’t help anyone anymore, nobody calls you names

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