Men's Problems
The main focus is normally on how women have a tougher time of things than men, and I think that’s clearly true in several key ways.
But one important way that women is that, in the UK at least, they don’t have to continually act macho and tough. That is a physical and emotional pain in the neck that men have to endure for more than 50 years of their life. It lasts from the time they are old enough for people to expect 'toughness' of them, in their early teens, right through until their late 60s or early 70s, when they are no longer expected to be 'tough'. A change in that would make the situation of men a lot better and benefit women too.
Mansplaining
Mansplaining is "the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing." This definitely happens, a lot, all around the world. And is a sexist annoying habit. However, there is also a growing tendency to use the term to evade the actual point being made. To interpret what a man says as that is, in its self, often a sexist way of thinking. Its to say that the identity of the person speaking is more important than the validity of the point. It’s evading the actual point by dismissing it on the grounds of the gender of the person making it.
The main focus is normally on how women have a tougher time of things than men, and I think that’s clearly true in several key ways.
But one important way that women is that, in the UK at least, they don’t have to continually act macho and tough. That is a physical and emotional pain in the neck that men have to endure for more than 50 years of their life. It lasts from the time they are old enough for people to expect 'toughness' of them, in their early teens, right through until their late 60s or early 70s, when they are no longer expected to be 'tough'. A change in that would make the situation of men a lot better and benefit women too.
Mansplaining
Mansplaining is "the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing." This definitely happens, a lot, all around the world. And is a sexist annoying habit. However, there is also a growing tendency to use the term to evade the actual point being made. To interpret what a man says as that is, in its self, often a sexist way of thinking. Its to say that the identity of the person speaking is more important than the validity of the point. It’s evading the actual point by dismissing it on the grounds of the gender of the person making it.