mansplaining

If you are a woman who interacts with members of the opposite sex, chances are you have had something you already know condescendingly explained to you by an overconfident man. Dubbed "mansplaining" by tired women, it has been well-documented and cleverly mocked online. Some women even make up extra-douchey characters and pretend to mansplain to show just how silly it looks. But mansplaining is so common and often so absurd that you can't always tell who's serious and who's just playing a character. So here's your chance to test your powers of detection! Each of the following posts was either written by a real know-it-all of a man, or by a woman pretending to mansplain. Can you figure out which is which? Good luck!

Men who mansplain are amongst some of the worst people on the planet. There's nothing more boring than having a man patronizingly explain something to you that you not only already understand but that you probably know more about than him. Welcome to men's fragile sexist egos, which can't possibly comprehend that a delicate, stupid little woman could understand something better than him— especially about their own bodies. I know, I know, not all men do this. But the ones who do give men a bad rep.

Tyra Blizzard decided to jump on the trending mansplaining bandwagon and shared a story on TikTok of how her ex-boyfriend tried mansplaining her period to her, explaining that she only needed a couple of spare tampons in her purse. and not as many as she currently had. She explained that she was "flabbergasted", and exclaimed, "Sir, how would you know about my flow?!" She then asked women to stitch or duet her TikTok with their own stories and share their own "jaw-dropping mansplaining experiences." Of course, her post went viral, and the responses came flooding in, and they are quite shocking. Here are some of the best, showing how alive and well the mansplaining disease is.

Riddle me this; what's one of the most infuriating things that men do? Ok, fine, it's not a trick question because every woman knows that the correct answer is "mansplaining," aka correctile dysfunction. Yes, almost every woman has had a man condescendingly explain something to them in a manner that suggests they can't possibly understand what he's talking about. And we're sick of it. F*ck. The. Patriarchy! Here are some mansplaining memes that you can send to men to explain how sick of mansplaining you are. Can we make 'womansplaining' a thing?