Second wave feminist here: "mansplaining" used to be where an architect, say, would earnestly explain neurosurgery to a female neurosurgeon. It was a term for men trying to school a woman in her own speciality. Idiotic progressive fourth wave "feminists" have ruined this useful term and so much else. By the way, I love your essays--you're my new favorite writer; you make me laugh. Thanks!
Thank you very much. I'm grateful for both the compliment and the clarification. Your example of mansplaining is indeed valid, and after an earnest examination of conscience I'm pretty sure that however much I may from time to time have annoyed the women in my life, I've never been that obnoxious.
Second wave feminist here: "mansplaining" used to be where an architect, say, would earnestly explain neurosurgery to a female neurosurgeon. It was a term for men trying to school a woman in her own speciality. Idiotic progressive fourth wave "feminists" have ruined this useful term and so much else. By the way, I love your essays--you're my new favorite writer; you make me laugh. Thanks!
Thank you very much. I'm grateful for both the compliment and the clarification. Your example of mansplaining is indeed valid, and after an earnest examination of conscience I'm pretty sure that however much I may from time to time have annoyed the women in my life, I've never been that obnoxious.