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Okay, when did mansplaining change from overexplaining something simple because the listener isn't a man to just explaining things in a horrendously incorrect manner?
This isn't mansplaining, this is just being a massive christian dumbass.
I've seen it used that way a lot. Think I saw a guy link a research paper to a woman he was arguing with. Turns out she wrote the damn thing and it did not agree with him like he claimed.
Mansplaining has always been a stupid term that served no purpose other than to just whine and moan and blame men for any problem they could think of.
At best its a guy actually being an asshole, at worst it's just a guy who doesn't know that the girl is knowledgeable on the topic.
Especially in this meme, the dude probably just didn't know the name of the person who wrote the book and was given misleading information. He's an idiot, yes, but anything beyond that is just looking for an excuse to shit on him because men bad.
As a woman who works in computer science, mansplaining is a very real phenomenon.
I would say that mansplaining is an actual real phenomenon, sometimes directly so (guys that do believe they know better than women) and other times indirectly, in cultures were men behave in a more assertive and aggressive way than women in conversations in groups and take over the conversation, in practice creating situations were they've taken over explaining something which a woman in the same group is vastly more qualified to explain.
However the word "mansplaining" has been so massivelly abused by mysandrists cosplaying as Feminists (to the point that in the last couple of years the most loud and frequent use of that word was by said mysandrists making prejudiced statements), that now there's a natural "bullshit!" reaction to anybody using it.