Female Scientist Invites ‘Mansplainers’ To Gaslight Her On Twitter, Hilarity Ensues (30 Pics)

Yes that's exactly it in my opinion. I'd argue that if a man explaining something like menstruation or menopause to a woman that's legitimate mansplaining (as long as the guy isn't a doctor or something), but if we look at the other mansplaining thread we had recently we can see that about half of it was just mislabeling. Like Mutchima implied here as well it starts from either side, so maybe it's the recipient that's a little sexist sometimes. A guy over explaining something to a woman purely because they are a woman is mansplaining. Beyond that it might just be someone excited to make conversation or trying to share something they've learned.

Yes, but all men are stupid and evil, only men can be wrong, etc...

Yes but women get their own area of expertise explained to them more than men because men think they don’t understand it because of their gender

No. I am an expert in Soviet history and it is ALWAYS men who are frankly clueless who insist on mansplaining why my conclusions are wrong even after admitting they can't read Russian nor are they up on the literature in the field. Women do not act like this online and its the explicit devaluation of expertise because of my gender ( get it a lot less when I go by Sam) that makes it mansplaining.

I agree. Stupid know-it-all come in all genders and colours. A former female boss (a rich but uneducated imbecile who couldn't even speak her mother tongue properly) used to try to explain to me how to teach my English class. I have a C2. She can't even say "hello" without sounding as if she is trying to clean her throat of mucus. Perhaps this attitude is more common in men, but I don't think they are the only offenders.

They see racism because they are racist to their skin type..it starts from either both sides.

But mansplaining is when a man is being an annoying know it all to a woman and that was the topic of the post.

I agree completely. In fact, I can think of several instances of femisplaining that I've personally witnessed where a woman assumed a man didn't know something because he was a man. Off the top of my head, I've seen women femisplain parenthood to fathers & I've seen women femisplain hair care to male hairdressers. Sexist assumptions go both ways & are equally frustrating.