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When was the last time a guy tried to tell you how something works just because you were a woman? Refresh your fond memories of mansplaining here!
Mansplaining is basically this cute thing that men do, where they think that women being women are stupid and, obviously, don’t know what they’re talking about. Be it rocket science or menstruation, they seem to be extraordinarily interested in simplifying all that for the poor womankind. How noble!
Here are some examples of this philanthropy, that some exceptions of the male kind showered on us, as I found from a look through Quora.
This guy clearly doesn’t need degrees to know things
“He then turned and started explaining the mechanics of the problem and how they should have solved it, in great detail. He must have somehow forgotten that he was talking to a mechanical engineer working in the mechanical engineering department.” – Charlotte Harvey
This one knew what was up before that woman, obviously!
“A man lecturing me on how to wash blood off sheets. (This is to do with work, nothing weird. One of the patients had a nosebleed.) I have been menstruating for thirty-one years. One thing I do know is how to remove blood stains.” – Mary Lea
This could be a scene from a comedy movie, where the actress would proceed to fall in love with the guy anyway.
“My line of work involves going to the client’s workplace for audit purposes. My coworkers, 2 women, went over for one such assignment. The helper there was a creep who kept trying to touch them, talk to them and solicit them with creepy singing. One day, things went too far, and the guy tried to place his head between their seats to do god-knows-what. They jumped up, and loudly berated him. The manager of the place yelled at them, claiming they were acting too sensitive, and that guys tended to do such things (in a very subtle, indirect manner, so they couldn’t even call him out on it!)” – Kirtana Gopakumar
She should be thankful he didn’t start abusing her right away, so polite omg!
“About a year ago or so, some men stalked me online and kept giving me unnecessary advise about how to look and behave in order to get the attention of men. Ironic, isnt it? I already had their attention without wanting to have it btw.” – Lucea Kacsik
Like I said, men don’t need no education to ‘splain’ things.
“A guy I was seeing a couple of years ago pointed out Jupiter in the night sky. He “splained” that Jupiter is the largest planet. This guy’s highest level of education was community college. I have three degrees from universities. Apparently he thought I was too educated to know something that simple.” – Shelley McCoy
These are just some instances of mansplaining, of something that is so rampant in the world that almost every woman seems to relate to it in one way or another. Let us know your experiences below!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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