mansplaining

Attempting to explain away making sexual passes on a young lady when you're a married professional in the comics industry, aka Brian Wood. Afterwards you continue to go on and act like you're a feminist and really respect women.

Mansplaining - Tess Fowler is correct about this: I did make a pass at her at SDCC Hyatt bar roughly 8 years ago. But when she declined, that was the conclusion of the matter for me. There was never a promise of quid pro quo, no exertion of power, no threats, and no revenge. This was at a time in my career when I had very little professional power or industry recognition. The pickup was a lame move, absolutely, and I’ll accept the heat for having done it, but that’s all it was: I liked her, I took a chance, and was shot down. I immediately regretted it, and I apologize to Ms. Fowler for the tackiness and embarrassment of it all.

I’ve kept quiet for these last couple weeks because this is a problematic thing to address without unintended blowback. While I believe she is as incorrect as she can be about what my intent and motivations were, I don’t want to encourage any negative opinion directed back at her.

I think the larger issues of abuse in the comics industry are genuine and I share everyone's concerns. As a father to a young daughter showing an interest in making her own comics, I do really care about this stuff. So I don’t want our difference of accounts to take attention away from that industry-wide discussion that needs to happen.

Brian Wood
11/15/2013

by Zephyr Q November 17, 2013

Mansplain

To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.

Female gardener: I like to grow lettuce

Guy: You probably didn't know this but lettuce and cabbage are actually 2 different things

Female gardener: Why would you mansplain this to me, a gardener.

by Fredman14 June 30, 2017

Mansplaining

(of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.

Tammy: "I hate how Sam doesn't pay attention to Abby when she's talking at lunch."

Tonya: Right?!?? He always has always been mansplaining everything that she says....

Tammy: As if she hasn't been here longer than her.

by VolicT@rt July 31, 2017

Mansplain

When a man comments on a woman's subject, in what he thinks is a knowledgeable way. The man may even argue that their point is the right point.

The girls and I were taking about body acceptance when Don jumped in and tried to mansplain it.

by jetjetvictoria June 30, 2017

Mansplain

The habit some men have of making a "well, actually" statement then re-explaining an explanation a woman has just given, adding nothing new or different to the explanation, and in fact frequently adding incorrect information.

This tends to happen a lot on subjects men consider "manly".

Eric tried Mansplaining to Sharon, who has a Ph.d on the subject, because women don't know more than men about anything, ever.
Example: Water is wet.

Well actually, hot water is also wet. In fact, it even feels wetter.

by WomanAmused August 10, 2017

Mansplain

Mansplain (verb): When a man attempts to explain something to a woman in an authoritative and condescending manner, even though what is being is explained is already understood by that woman as a result of her professional expertise and/or lived experiences, due to a sexist belief that a woman always needs to be told by man how something really works, or in an attempt to undermine the seriousness of sexist behavior and reinforce male authority.

As in, “He mansplained the pain of child birth as beautiful to my sister who had just given birth to her daughter.”

Or, “Most of the Urban Dictionary definitions for mansplain are clear attempts to mansplain away a sexist way of talking to women and sexism in general."

by Chris inCO October 21, 2017

Mansplain

(Of a man) To explain something to a woman in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing. What sets mansplaining apart from a man simply explaining something or giving an opinion is that the mansplainer typically has less knowledge of the topic than the party he is explaining it to, but has assumed that because she is female she cannot comprehend the topic as well as a man could.

Exampes of what is NOT mansplaining:

1) A man explaining how to use a power tool to a woman who needs help using it.
2) A man expressing an opinion on a subjective topic or engaging in a debate with a woman about a topic about which they have similar levels of knowledge

Examples of what IS manplaining:

1) A man who has no formal knowledge of automobile repairs explaining to his female mechanic how an engine works.

2) A man who has never studied gynecology explaining to a woman how she should feel when she is on her period.

Female physicist: "I was giving a lecture on Thermodynamics at the university, and afterwards this guy who had taken one class on the subject pulled me aside and tried to mansplain my own theories to me."

by CrayolaCastle October 15, 2017