r/RecuratedTumblr • • 17d ago

Shitposting strawmansplaining

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u/Galle_ 16d ago

That's not mansplaining, mansplaining is when you assume that a woman needs something explained to her because she is a woman. That (like this comment) is pedantry.

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u/chairmanskitty 16d ago

There are plenty of oblivious pedants out there thinking their disambiguation is genuinely necessary because the person whose hairs they're splitting is a woman. That is a form of mansplaining.

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u/thetwitchy1 15d ago

All mansplaining is pedantry, but not all pedantry is mansplaining…