Psychology behind Mansplaining and its Effects

ABSTRACT

Mansplaining is a term that is derived from two words that is ‘ftan’ and ‘Explaining’. But the meaning it holds is not just literal. A writer named Rebecca Solnit wrote an essay "Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn’t Get in Their Way",  published on TomDispatch.com on 13 April 2008 and from this the term mansplaining was inspired. Solnit narrates an incident in the essay where she was being lectured by a man about a book she had written at her own party.

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