Why you'll never hear this Feminist use the word "Mansplain"...

[liberalhistorian]

177. I've had the misfortunate of knowing plenty of women

who do just as you describe and it makes me as angry as sexist men. Actually, angrier because the women should know better. I've known several women for whom men are never, ever guilty of anything; that when a man does something wrong, it's always the fault of a woman somewhere, somehow (the wife, mother, sister, daughter, etc.), and when things go wrong, they look to blame a woman first and foremost before they even fully know anything. For them, any woman who even asks a man to do anything is being jealous, controlling, possessive, etc. They decry feminism and disdain feminists while reaping the benefits of the hard work and sacrifices of said feminists in earning for them the very rights they now take for granted or think that somehow men generously gave them.

They're the type that consider that woman-hating misogynist "Dr." Laura, and her stupid shit misogynist books like "The Care and Feeding of Husbands", which basically consists of telling women to just shut up, sit down and serve the needs of their husbands regardless of their own (my favorite was the one where she told a young woman who was caring for an infant as well as her terminally-ill mother, and who was understandably exhausted and in need of support from her husband but wasn't getting it, that she was "selfish and thoughtless" for not catering to her husband's whining about his "needs not being met&quot to be the go-to "expert" that women must listen to. Sometimes we're our own worst enemy.

I agree that "mansplaining" is not the correct or proper term, because women most assuredly to it, too, especially to each other. I think that "ego-splaining" is much more accurate.