Shame (for me) about the copyright limitations.

"Mansplaining" ? Anyone know? I guess I could google it...


Edited: The word is thought to have been first used in 2008 or 2009,[4] shortly after San Francisco author Rebecca Solnit published an April 2008 blog post titled "Men Explain Things to Me." In it, she did not use the word mansplaining, but defined the phenomenon as "something every woman knows," telling the story of a man at a party lengthily describing to her a recent "very important" book, and needing to be told three or four times before taking in that Solnit was in fact its author. Solnit characterizes mansplaining as "the intersection between overconfidence and cluelessness",[5] rooted in a "presumption, that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence."[6][7][8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining

It's better than what I learned -- "fuck you"-- didn't really get me anywhere life

Such as:

# 1: No, we won't.

# 2: No, you must be thinking of someone else.

# 3: No, I don't need a date.

# 4: No, I don't need a ride.

# 5: No, I don't need a meal.

# 6: No, you may not come into my house.

# 7: No, I do not want to hear what that woman you broke up with did.

# 8: No, no way in hell.

# 9: No, we don't even live on the same planet.

#10: No, you do not tell how I should feel.*

*The one used most often. After all, most of us are a work in progress and our feelings change over time. We don't need anyone interfering with that process. People who insist on telling others how they ought to feel, act and talk, are really talking about themselves and using the wrong pronouns. They should work on their own delusions. IMO.

Thanks for sharing it