10 Words Every Girl Should Learn

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3. I wonder who it was who came up with the term

"Mansplaining" ? Anyone know? I guess I could google it...


Edited: The word is thought to have been first used in 2008 or 2009,[4] shortly after San Francisco author Rebecca Solnit published an April 2008 blog post titled "Men Explain Things to Me." In it, she did not use the word mansplaining, but defined the phenomenon as "something every woman knows," telling the story of a man at a party lengthily describing to her a recent "very important" book, and needing to be told three or four times before taking in that Solnit was in fact its author. Solnit characterizes mansplaining as "the intersection between overconfidence and cluelessness",[5] rooted in a "presumption, that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence."[6][7][8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining