Thursday, October 29, 2015

I'm a girrrrrl! Mansplaining

Are you familiar with the term "mansplaining?" Hillary Clinton's superpac is using that term today to describe Marco Rubio's attempt to explain to his wife why someone named Sally Mae was taking $1000 out of his account every month.

Here is Wikipedia's attempt to define mansplaining:
Mansplaining is a portmanteau of the words man and explaining, defined as "to explain something to someone, typically a man to woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing."[1][2] Lily Rothman of The Atlantic defines it as "explaining without regard to the fact that the explainee knows more than the explainer, often done by a man to a woman,"[3] and Rebecca Solnit ascribes the phenomenon to a combination of "overconfidence and cluelessness" that some men display.[4]

Zeke Miller reports in Time,
The super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton’s campaign is accusing Florida Sen. Marco Rubio of “mansplaining” in Wednesday night’s debate in a new web vHillaryideo.

The attack from Priorities USA — a step short of calling the surging Republican sexist—stemmed from his comments in which Rubio said he struggled to explain his student loan debt to his wife after they were married.
Read more here.

Ace writes about Hillary,
She hasn't done anything, she hasn't accomplished anything, and she has nothing to her credit, except for four dead Americans and a thick passel of lies.

So all she has is the But I'm a Girrrrrl card.
Read more here.

And she'll play it forever. And ever. And ever.

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