#splain

[preyfawn]

good pet for having your holes out!

wait did i post hole last night

[jhsharman]

the look of love

Of interest.

But sometime in the last 30 years, a subtle shift in its use took place.  'Splain began to be used sarcastically, particularly in Usenet chat rooms, to call out someone for explaining something either without taking the original poster’s comments into consideration or in a extensive and sometimes condescending way. For example, one poster in a 1989 post subtly challenged another poster’s claims about the human impact on the environment by starting his argument with, “Okay, Paul, splain this to me:….” In 1998, a poster explained the difference between an item’s price and its value and took a subtle jab at another forum poster by ending their explanation with, “Some smart guy who went to a good school will be along shortly to ‘splain it all.” By 2004, 'splain had gained enough of a negative connotation that when a poster to rec.crafts.woodturning shuts down someone with a sarcastic “could you be a little more splainy about your comment to us,” no one jumps in to ask what the excellent splainy means.

It wasn’t until Rebecca Solnit’s 2008 essay "Men Explain Things To Me" that 'splain became attached to a particular kind of splaining: men explaining things to women as if those women didn’t know anything about the things in question. Though Solnit didn’t coin the word that describes this phenomenon, mansplain, she inspired it. Our earliest evidence for mansplain comes from 2009, the year after Solnit’s essay appeared.

[peach-bias-blog]

Got Splain’d

Why do people try to splain shit? Just had a dude try to explain to me that “Deaf people can talk they just choose not to” and after telling him a majority of my family is deaf and I’ve spent a majority of my life around deaf people. this dude goes from 100 - 0 and apologizes and tries to reach some agreement that “Well they can make sound can we atleast agree on that?”

[pinkapplejamdreams]

The "Well Actually" Badge

[dokidoki-tae]

pipirupirucookie replied to your post:Ohhhh my god. Holy fuck. You're so attractive....

Shay, I think I love you more.

( o∀o) ?? EH  ¿Pero por qué?

[dolphin-damsel]

History

So today in class we learned about Chrisbler Columber. He sailed like the ocean blue in 1942 with his famous ships the Niner, the Pinter, and the Santa Claus Ringer. We learned about Elizabeth the one too. And Joan the Arch who did really good backbends.

[leafyxthiefy]

Why does this make so much sense Can this be canon!

[washingtonpost]

There's so much splaining out there these days.

Overheard at The Washington Post