EXPLAINING “mansplaining.” “Part of the definition of mansplaining sometimes includes the idea that the woman on the receiving end already knows all (and more!) of what is being explained to her and that the man should have realised this was the case beforehand. But why would he? If he’s lived a normal life he knows that women generally know very little about anything. Unless he has psychic powers there’s no way for him to know this particular woman is unusually knowledgeable. Unless she tells him (but women, it seems, consider the communication of information to be a huge taboo. So she won’t bother).”