Mansplaining. A problem so serious that they've opened up a hotline in sweden for women who are upset that ... men are providing unsolicited explanations in what was interpreted as a condescending manner. I knew there are people who do engage in this kind of behavior (people who love hearing themselves talk) but I wasn't aware it was strictly a male vs female problem, let alone a traumatizing problem that calls for a hotline to be put in place to help women cope with incidents of mansplaining.
What are our resident pardians thoughts on the topic of mansplaining?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/11/18/sweden-opens-hotline-report-mansplaining/94063074/Quote
A new hotline in Sweden allows women to call in about mansplaining, when men give unsolicited advice to women at work because they think they know better. Elizabeth Keatinge (@ekeatinge) has more. Buzz60
Mansplaining. By now you've probably had it 'splained to you. But just in case, here's Swedish gender expert Christina Knight on the subject:
"I think often it's experienced as a sort of condescending exercise whereby the woman feels that the man feels a need to explain in perhaps a patronizing or condescending way, where the woman hasn't actually asked to be informed, and perhaps the woman might already be more knowledgeable or more well informed on the subject."
In other words, it's when a man a) assumes a woman knows nothing b) over-explains something obvious or not even worthy of explanation, and/or c) likes the sound of his own voice.
If you're a Swedish woman, and believe you've been mansplained, for this week only you can call a mansplaining hotline to vent. This is no joke. One of Sweden's largest trade unions, Unionen, set up the hotline after hearing one too many mansplaining complaints from its members.
This post was edited by duffman316 on Jan 10 2017 08:56pm