Talkin’ Bout Your Explanation

Rachel Wayne
5 min readFeb 11, 2018

Recently, mansplaining has been a favorite topic of social media. Of course, for every example given, someone (usually, not always, a man) swoops in to pick it apart. Particularly amusing is when some mansplains mansplaining (so meta!)

In the following very un-scientific study, I will examine some myths and facts about mansplaining — or ‘splaining in general — that pop up in every.single.comment.thread I’ve read…

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Rachel Wayne

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