Are you going to call the Mansplaining Hotline to mansplain why there's no need for a Mansplaining Hotline?

@Shar -- If you don't know the origin of the term "mansplain", check out the NY Times link in the description.

Or I could mansplain it to you...;-D...

I did.  I really did.   It is a new concept, yes, but I get it.  I especially found the part of the men calling and complaining about the hotline and not getting off the phone and not shutting up to be the most exhilarating.  That was my favorite. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at November 25, 2016 10:00 PM MST

OS, and then there is this too.   Women are such damned copy-cats. 

womansplaining

the opposite of mansplaining when a woman tries to belittle or shut down a man by gender shaming she is thus womansplaining

feminist: You're opinion doesnt matter because you're a male.
belittled male: Shut up you're womansplaining!

@Sharonna -- I doubt "mansplaining" is new. It's something I'm sure women have endured for much of human history. I suspect it is driven by two primary factors:

1) Different conversational styles -- As documented by sociolinguist Debra Tannen, men and women tend to have different methods and goals in conversations. Men tend to converse for information transmission and to establish social dominance, while women tend to converse to establish emotional connection and inclusiveness. When the two styles intersect, women are often left a bit "stepped on." Not because men are deliberately trying to put them down, but because women are not as accustomed to the male style and how to hold one's station within it. If author Rebecca Soinit had shouted at her mansplaining acquiantance, "Yes, the important book on Muybridge. I WROTE IT, you knucklehead. How about I tell YOU about it rather than the other way around?", she might never had reason to coin the term "mansplaining."

2) Gender stereotyping -- We don't like to admit it, but we still have gender stereotypes (some valid, some silly) about social roles. I recall reading about an auto repair shop in Northern California called Bimbo's Auto Care.

https://www.angieslist.com/companylist/us/ca/danville/bimbo%27s-auto-care-reviews-3538682.htm

The reason it is so named is because the owner, a woman with many years in the business and expert knowledge about car repair, found many of her customers refused to believe "that bimbo" was the person they should talk to, instead seeking out her male employees to "mansplain" to them about their cars. So she decided to make fun of that phenomenon and play up the "bimbo" aspect. Sometimes this gender stereotyping is more overt, sometimes it's more subconscious, but it does still happen, and I think sometimes mansplaining happens because men forget women are quite capable in most modern social roles.

Dear Mansplainer.

Uh.... I already GOT it. You were not listening to me.

@Nuka -- As you are probably aware, I am an equal-opportunity Mansplainer.

If I can dump a small portion of my vast collection of tangled nonsense in my head on to these pages, I will do so, regardless of the gender of the person who prompted it...;-D..

This post was edited by OldSchoolTheSKOSlives at November 26, 2016 1:25 PM MST

Why do you think you are my great favorite on here?    Keep talking and explaining, your words are like tasty bon bons to my starving palette. 

Womansplainer.  

People often tell me I am good in conversation.
My natural mode is intensely shy, but I feel as if I'm being very rude if I say nothing, so I've worked hard at learned how to converse.
Slowly the situation has changed and now most people never see the shyness.

I think you're spot on, OldSchool. :)
I rarely get men mansplaining to me and its probably because I love conversations full of information exchange. We find out where we're at, what our areas of competency (or idiocy) are, and most times the chat just flows from there. Sometimes it falls flat and I move on. Some people are just too much hard work.
Mostly, they're stimulating and interesting and it's one reason why I love conversation with men.
But I have witnessed mansplaining on countless occasions.
The bit about establishing social dominance initially caught me by surprise, and then I recognised it. There often is a competitive edge in conversations between men who are just starting to get to know each other. I can't recall hearing it often between established friends.
If I want to connect with a woman it's very different. I generally ask about her experiences and feelings, and in minutes we're hitting it off just fine.
(Actually, I think men like that too, but not until they feel a bit more comfortable and relaxed.)
If a woman is information oriented, I pick that up pretty quickly and switch modes.
This tendency developed without my being aware of it, and you've clarified it - which I enjoyed.

Looks like you're giving womansplaining a different meaning, not just flipping the gender of mansplaining.

I agree with you that we women need to stop assuming that all men are this or that just because they are men.
I've long thought that too many women have been using feminism as an excuse to blame men for bad behaviour which has nothing to do with gender.
Certainly male chauvenism and double-standards still exist in many men with patriarchal family origins -  but there are more effective ways of dealing with it than being a female chauvenist sow in revenge.

(P.S. I am not implying that you or any particular person is an f.c. sow or an m.c. boar.) This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at November 26, 2016 1:25 PM MST

According to media reports on the topic, the hotline is staffed by many bright people. Some of them probably speak English. Give it a shot!...;-D..

I'll admit, some of them probably speak English better than wot I do.

Um...no. Not exactly.

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

;)

You know very little about Sweden, and apparently are relying on doubtful and questionable sources. You won't be the first here on aM doing so. Once we had a member who called himself Al who did the same. Tsk tsk.

As usual...

You're apparently believing the false news reports being propagated across the internet by people trying to stir up hatred against Muslim refugees.
Try checking the government crime statistics in the relevant countries and you'll see just how huge the lies of the propagandists really are.

I didn't say a word about crime. That's a completely separate issue. (While it's true that some nationalists have an incentive to exaggerate the crime problem, the leftists have a reason to understate it. Why would governments trying to justify multicultural policies be honest about the crimes rates? They have every incentive to lie to defend their policies. There is no reason whatsoever to trust their statistics.)

What did I get wrong exactly? Are you denying low birth rates in Sweden and other European nations like Germany? Are you denying that E.U. average is 1.6? That's a dying culture.

Are you denying that Muslim cultures believe in strong gender roles? Are you denying that strong gender roles correlate strongly to high birth rates? Are you denying that gender egalitarian cultures correlate strongly to low birth rates? So doesn't it stand to reason that Islam will become the dominant culture unless the Swedes abandon multiculturalism and increase their birth rates?

This post was edited by Zeitgeist at November 26, 2016 2:32 PM MST