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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Thanks mister male!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey now, mansplaining does have its uses..

Mansplaining Now Tops Condoms as Most Effective Contraceptive

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

(Fyi condoms are not the most effective)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Which on is (apart from mansplaining)?

Spiral?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Homosexuality

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

πŸπŸβœ‚οΈ

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

βœ‚οΈ

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Contraceptive implant.

See table under 'Effectiveness':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_methods

Typical use failure rate during first year:

  • contraceptive implant 0.05%
  • vasectomy 0.15%
  • IUD 0.8%
  • pill 7%
  • male condom 13%
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So yeah, an IUD "spiral". AKA "coil" as they are apparently called in English.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Shut up penis!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] olafurp 19 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] SarcasticCephalopod 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month 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 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] horse_battery_staple 2 points 1 month ago

Hope you feel more like you.

[–] atomicorange 18 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Maybe you can explain the correct usage to her.

[–] Duamerthrax 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Sanctus 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] aeronmelon 6 points 1 month ago

Mansquaring

[–] errer 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ZILtoid1991 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Was skeletor born a skeleton?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Perhaps Obelix fell into the Genderfluid?

[–] ZILtoid1991 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mansplain Manipulate Male-pattern baldness

[–] tb_ 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Shou 1 points 1 month ago

Ah yes. Very wordy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Did you just skeleplain mansplaning to me?

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