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• ronigami@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There are several parts of the word’s meaning, some of them optional:

  1. man explaining thing to woman
  2. poorly / incorrectly
  3. dismissively
  4. that she already knows
  5. to someone who knows more about it

  But the only real requirement is #1. Despite what anyone says, even if the thing is not explained dismissively and is explained well to someone who doesn’t know about it, you could still call it mansplaining because it’s punching up. Which again only serves to say that attempting to explain is the shameful part.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Punching up again. You keep using that word, and I don’t think it means what I think it means. You’re using it as a stand-in for asserting inherent superiority over another person, but correcting someone on the internet does not actually imply that.

    But the only real requirement is #1

    Why? No, seriously, who says? You’re the one making that claim here, and you appear to be the only one doing that. Why is that the only real requirement, and why does it conflict with all the broadly accepted definitions (including the one you just provided)?

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