Academic Men Explain Things to Me  teal 150 I recently came
across this tumblr ”Academic Men Explain Things to me,” a
collection of women’s stories of times they were mansplained.
According to the tumblr “mansplaining doesn’t mean explaining
while male; it means explaining while assuming you know more
because you’re male.” An article from The Atlantic called “A
cultural history of mansplaining” also describes it as
“explaining without regard to the fact that the explainee knows
more than the explainer, often done by a man to a woman.”   What
I especially like about this tumblr is that it encourages women
to share their experiences of times they felt someone
mansplained them, putting emphasis on personal lived
experiences:  “this site does not exist to determine what counts
as mansplaining but rather to give women a forum to recount
their experiences. Rather than trying to predetermine the line
between sexism in general and mansplaining in particular, we
prefer to include the range of posts we receive and let