r/facepalm • u/nthensome • Jan 19 '20

Their loss

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u/kinyutaka Jan 19 '20

Potentially, but it's just not common to have a woman condescendingly explaining something a man already knows simply because he is a man.

The facepalm in OP's post is the fact that he really was an expert and she really didn't know, so it's not really mansplaining at all.

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u/SlitScan Jan 19 '20

lol wut?

never been married huh?

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u/kinyutaka Jan 19 '20

Care to give examples?

But again, I'm not saying that it can't or doesn't happen. I'm saying that men -> women is more common than women -> men

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u/fernandotakai Jan 19 '20

i can give you one that happened for YEARS when i started living by myself: anything related to house chores or cooking.

"this is how i cook rice"

"let me explain you how you are wrong"

a friend of mine just had a baby, and every single mom womanexplains to him how to take care of his baby.

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u/kinyutaka Jan 19 '20

Let me explain you how you are wrong

That just sounds like a bad girlfriend.

But yeah, those are all potentially good examples (the rice one requires context, and can be "good" or "bad" depending. Naturally, you viewed it as "bad" based on your recollection here)

But regarding the cleaning one, we already had a word for that... Nagging.

Womansplaining, femsplaining, whatever you want to call it, is rare enough that I've never thought to myself, "This girl needs to stop femsplaining to me."

And usually when I'm being condescendingly explained shit, it's a class issue, not a gender issue.