Comments on: Me? A mansplainer? Let me mansplain.

By: snarkysmachine

snarkysmachine — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:28:55 +0000

Okay, since we’ve finally reduced manplaining to mean “Shit I don’t want to hear from people I don’t like.” Our work is done. Good Job, Shapelings.

The thread is now closed. I’ll turn off the lights when I leave.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:22:35 +0000

SM, why doesn’t a mod close the thread when they deem appropriate? This is something I’ve wondered. In my blog at any rate I can close comments any time I want.

By: Sweet Machine

Sweet Machine — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:44:46 +0000

Ooffff, sorry for the pedantic, kinda off topic, know-it-all rant.

*headdesk*

Y’all, it might be appropriate to let this thread die a natural death, as it’s approaching 400 comments now.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:15:59 +0000

TB: i’m really sorry! I felt like your analogy wasn’t entirly a good example of mansplaining because the person who questions the classical composer, while definitely obnoxious, isn’t neccesairly speaking from a point of priviledge. I ended up kind of ranting about something else entirely, which was a mistake, and i’m sorry for that. I took the wrong idea out of your post and thought you were trying to make a statement about the relative worth of two different types of genres, which something that always bothers me when people do. And yeah, I definitely see how that could’ve been mansplaining. Whoops. Although I didn’t ‘dismiss contemporary classical music as derivative! I just said that it has absorbed influences from a lot of diffent musics.

By: TB

TB — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:55:47 +0000

Oh and Miguel, I just reread your post and it’s actually more headdesk on a 2nd reading. You presume that you are telling me things I don’t know about music…seriously, what do you think mansplaining is? It’s EXACTLY what your post does! Complete with the “apologies for being pedantic, etc…” You weren’t apologizing. You were making sure I knew how deeply you have thought about music and assuming that I haven’t been enlightened to the (irrelevant) ‘points’ in your post. (As if your thoughts on music are somehow fresh and original, nay, SO fresh and original that they just HAD to be shared despite being entirely beside the point of the analogy.) You are also pointlessly dismissive of classical music, which you ignorantly slam as derivative. There wasn’t any reason to do that except…to MANSPLAIN!

Check yourself, my friend.

By: TB

TB — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:45:56 +0000

@Adara, yes, you nailed it :-)

By: TB

TB — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:45:05 +0000

@Miguel, um, lolol, thanks for the mansplanation, I’ll think about that, K?

No really, the point has nothing whatsoever to do with styles of music and their relative worth, the point is that you don’t go telling someone who has studied something and made it their career and who has just achieved a big success in it, that they don’t actually know what the REAL vanguard is.

Yes, I’d say you missed the point. Very nice demonstration of the OP, though…

By: Autumn

Autumn — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:05:28 +0000

LOL, correcting “too” for “to” in the last sentence.

By: Autumn

Autumn — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:04:26 +0000

INFP here.

I have a LOT of mansplainers in my family. I’m married to one, although he’s not TOO terrible, I still get a lot of, “You’re just like this because you’re on your period” or “not thinking straight because it’s that time of month” as if my hormones have something to do with rationality and reality.

I LOVE when my former religion is “mansplained” to me, with the idea that I didn’t have it right the first time and I should convert back! If I understood it correctly (never mind I went to college to learn about it) I wouldn’t have left it. No thanks, I like the religion I converted too much better than the one I was raised in.

By: sleepydumpling

sleepydumpling — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:11:19 +0000

Oh God, a lightbulb just went on in my head. The friend I have been teasing for his mansplaining is actually even more chauvenistic than I first realised. Ugh!!!