Mansplain chosen as Macquarie Dictionary’s 2014 word of the year“Mansplain is a verb - a
Mansplain chosen as Macquarie Dictionary’s 2014 word of the year“Mansplain is a verb - a man explaining something to a woman, in a way that is patronising because it assumes that a woman will be ignorant of the subject matter (Man + [ex]plain with "s” inserted to create a pronunciation link with explain).The committee said they felt mansplain was a much-needed word and that it was clever, neatly capturing “the concept of the patronising explanation offered only too frequently by some men to women”.Ms Butler said the winning word simplified describing a situation that many women found themselves in.“When a man is, in a heavy-handed manner, explaining something to a woman that she already knows it’s complicated to say ‘look, you’re being a bit patronising because you’re assuming that I wouldn’t know that sort of thing because I am a woman’ - where as you could just say to them 'you’re mansplaining again’ - it sums it up very nicely,” she said.Read the full piece here -- source link
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