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Sometimes you dont realize how #bawse somebody is, until you make it into a gif.
So after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smacked down the Senate and the House yesterday it occurred to me that what made it magical is that it is an instructional video on how to deal with a mansplainer. And of course, any good tutorial needs to be broken down into gifs for emphasis.
Ladies and gentlemen, How to deal with a mansplainer starring Hillary Clinton
Step 1: Raise your hands up like, Whoa you guys you cant be serious.
----SNIP----
Hilarious post from feministing:
http://feministing.com/2013/01/24/how-to-deal-with-a-mansplainer-starring-hillary-clinton-in-gifs/
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)..
"Let me just look through my binder full of men here..."
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And then this one, of course:
Love it!
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)K&R
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Mansplain
To explain in a patronizing manner, assuming total ignorance on the part of those listening. The mansplainer is often shocked and hurt when their mansplanation is not taken as absolute fact, criticized or even rejected altogether.
Named for a behavior commonly exhibited by male newbies on internet forums frequented primarily by women. Often leads to a flounce. Either sex can be guilty of mansplaining.
The members of the equestrian community were unimpressed when Bob posted an essay that mansplained a solution to a horsy problem they were all well-acquainted with.
2. Mansplain
To explain something in an unnecessarily long winded way, so as to dominate the conversation, and to make statements that are not based on facts, assuming that people will believe and agree with him because he is male.
"The recession was caused by the government because it spent too much money and people should look after themselves and not expect society to look after its members or its community... ad nauseam.
...Therefore its all womens fault."
^mansplaining.
3. Mansplain
Despite claims of superior strength in avoiding over-emotional reactions, when a man encounters even one iota of criticism of men on the internet, he must then mansplain why women suck by comparison or must be radical feminists.
Mansplain--to put women down in response to criticism.
Even though Mansplain only points out a specific aspect of what some men do but not in every context, explainerOrMansplainer and Wicker33 were so overcome by the inability to accept criticism and had to condescendingly mansplain how women must be either dumb; (ironically) unable to take criticism (derp!); or should be dismissed as radical.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mansplain
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Bonus points for threads where men mansplain that it happens to men, too.
It's a subtle and unconscious form of gas lighting on a massive scale
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Yes, indeed, the GOP congressmen were mansplainin' statecraft to the little lady.
As if.
Maven
(10,533 posts)Step 9: Go home and do this.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)"Go home and do this"
what's in the mystery panel!????
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)So good!