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[–] 103 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's a portmanteau, actually. 👨‍🏫 A portmanteau is a word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is a more accurate comment, you can tell because the spelling is correct and the content is plausible.

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  • [–] 83 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hey now, mansplaining does have its uses..

    Mansplaining Now Tops Condoms as Most Effective Contraceptive

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    (Fyi condoms are not the most effective)

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)
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  • [–] 45 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thank you. As the inventor of the term “mansplaining”, I had no idea and would have remained ignorant if you hadn’t explained this.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    Ugh... I can't stand this. But Skeletor is just the right person to do it.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Mansplain Manipulate Male-pattern baldness

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Did you just skeleplain mansplaning to me?

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

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