Tag: mansplaining

Why men get furious at women who say they prefer the “dad bod”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date May 2, 2025
15 Comments on Why men get furious at women who say they prefer the “dad bod”

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“Dad bods” are stirring up trouble again. Last week, Evo Psych researcher William Costello posted an informal poll on X asking men and women (separately) which version of Olly Murs they thought looked the most attractive–a “normal” version of the English singer, looking basically fit but with a slight hint of a belly, or a muscled-up version of him after 12 weeks of intense workouts at the gym. The poll went viral, garnering some 725,000 views. And not surprisingly, if you’ve ever waded into the dad bod discourse before, the men mostly thought that muscley Murs looked better; women even more overwhelmingly preferred the “before” version.

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WARNING for water-drinking cervix-havers (and cervix-having water-drinkers) but not for water-drinking cervixes

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date May 7, 2022
16 Comments on WARNING for water-drinking cervix-havers (and cervix-having water-drinkers) but not for water-drinking cervixes

Remember to check BOTH of your cervixes!

On this lazy Saturday I’m gathering together a little collection of mansplainations I found catalogued on Reddit.

First, a public service announcement for uterus-having water-drinkers. Be careful out there!

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The Vaginal Misinformation Squad is out in full force

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 1, 2022
23 Comments on The Vaginal Misinformation Squad is out in full force

This is an actual stock photo, listed under “vagina.” I didn’t add the, er, sauce.

Vaginas can be a bit confusing, for those who don’t have them and even for some who do. That doesn’t stop some of the most confused men from confidently offering up their dubious wisdom on the subject, often in online conversations with actual vagina-havers. Call it Vaginasplaining.

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Men’s Rights man mansplains mansplaining

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date November 15, 2021
59 Comments on Men’s Rights man mansplains mansplaining

Sharksplaining

I saw this in the Men’s RIghts subreddit the other day and I almost wept with joy. Because here, in the wild, was a man mansplaining mansplaining.to feminists.

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Bro-science Sunday: Men evolve to be better and better but women just keep on being terrible

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date April 25, 2021
24 Comments on Bro-science Sunday: Men evolve to be better and better but women just keep on being terrible

Well that escalated very very slowly

Manosphere dudes love talking about science. Unfortunately they don’t seem quite as enthusiastic about learning the science before they talk about it. They’d rather make up their own theories anyway, especially when it comes to biology in general and evolution in particular.

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Is The Handmaid’s Tale a parable about “the folly of the liberated woman?” One MGTOW says “yes.”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 20, 2021
72 Comments on Is The Handmaid’s Tale a parable about “the folly of the liberated woman?” One MGTOW says “yes.”

What the fuck are you talking about, MGTOW?

Margaret Atwood has a unusual new fan — a commenter on the MGTOW2 subreddit who thinks that The Handmaid’s Tale is (unbeknownst to even Atwood herself) not a dystopian vision of a patriarchal theocracy but rather a sort of Red Pill parable on “the folly of the liberated woman.”

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Meet the man who mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale … to Margaret Atwood

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date July 8, 2019
36 Comments on Meet the man who mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale … to Margaret Atwood

Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale

By David Futrelle

With the right slowly but surely winning its war on the right to abortion, in both legal and practical terms, you might expect Margaret Atwood — you know, the author of the Handmaid’s Tale, the dystopian novel about an oppressively patriarchal state that’s been turned into a really very depressing Hulu series — to be feeling more than a little angry about the state of women’s rights in the US today.

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Lips Dick: Angry knobhead mansplains labial anatomy at Jezebel writer

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 26, 2019
44 Comments on Lips Dick: Angry knobhead mansplains labial anatomy at Jezebel writer

Excuse me while I whip out my thoughts on your labia

By David Futrelle

It’s only been a month since the most stubborn man in the universe broke the internet by trying (and trying again at much greater length) to explain what he incorrectly saw as the correct use of the word “vagina” to a literally world-famous gynecologist.

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Celebrate International Women’s Day by listening to this dude explaining periods. And … motor oil?

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 8, 2019
147 Comments on Celebrate International Women’s Day by listening to this dude explaining periods. And … motor oil?

Note: Motor Oil should not be anywhere near your, well, you know what

By David Futrelle

What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than with a mansplaination of the menstrual cycle from a (presumably) young man on Tumblr who doesn’t seem to have ever seen a vagina in real life?

Although he assures us he has felt their pain.

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Mansplainin’ 2: Electric Vulvaloo! The dude who had a Twitter meltdown over the word “vulva” is back

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 28, 2019
135 Comments on Mansplainin’ 2: Electric Vulvaloo! The dude who had a Twitter meltdown over the word “vulva” is back

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By David Futrelle

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