Senator Katy Gallagher accuses Senator Mitch Fifield of "Mansplaining", Mitch Fifield takes no guff
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[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49727906]Women can only solve personal quarrels through primal violence
[I]~empowering~[/I][/QUOTE]
Violence against someone tied up and helpless. So brave.
That man's a god damn national hero. Name a city after him.
[QUOTE=Foogooman;49725209]It was definitely not appropriate to use in that setting, although "mansplaining" is definitely a thing that happens, and so is "womansplaining" although to a lesser degree.
It's a condescending way of speaking to someone who you assume to be unfamiliar with a subject strictly because of their gender. Women might womansplain to a man about makeup, and a man might mansplain to a woman about computers.[/QUOTE]
My God, whether it was intentional or not, I think we've reached peak irony thanks to your post.
[QUOTE=DuCT;49727453]It's even funnier because the guy is speaking the truth because of the lasso.[/QUOTE]
Fist the bad guy in one of their comics has unsolicited opinions on Israel despite the fact that he shouldn't know what the fuck Israel is, and now the writers forgot about how one of their characters was tied with the Lasso of Truth. Which means that he's either telling the truth, or they tied up an insane person and expected answers.
Holy shit she even said "sorry you are so offended" rather than "sorry I've offended you". That's one of the most condescending things you can say.
Mansplaining - when a man is shocked by a womans ignorance on a subject and tries to explain to her that she is wrong in a calm manner using logic. Been called out for it myself on a few occasions.
[QUOTE=Foogooman;49725209]It was definitely not appropriate to use in that setting, although "mansplaining" is definitely a thing that happens, and so is "womansplaining" although to a lesser degree.
It's a condescending way of speaking to someone who you assume to be unfamiliar with a subject strictly because of their gender. Women might womansplain to a man about makeup, and a man might mansplain to a woman about computers.[/QUOTE]
Your definition is wrong and the example is definitely wrong. Anybody can know about make-up or computers.
The idea behind "mansplaining" is talking on behalf of someone the speaker cannot relate to. For example the experience of living as a gender is something the member of the opposite gender in most cases cannot relate to.
So when a man talks about what's it like to be a woman, or how women should act and feel about things pisses people off because it's percieved as assuming authority that one does not have or deserve.
The problem happens to be that there's no way to argue against an accusation of mansplaining whether it's even called for or not, because it's essentially "your gender invalidates all your arguments in a debate about gender".
In this context we don't know if Mitch Fifield was actually speaking for people he does not represent (because the video is cut), Katy Gallagher doesn't know how to explain the term and it's all a bit of a mess. Bottom line is I don't think the term has a place in civilized debate.
[QUOTE=maeZtro;49732755]Mansplaining - when a man is shocked by a womans ignorance on a subject and tries to explain to her that she is wrong in a calm manner using logic. Been called out for it myself on a few occasions.[/QUOTE]
"Mansplaining"; verb; An explanation from a cisgendered male, result of the patriarchy
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