REX MURPHY: “Am I ‘mansplaining’ here? I certainly hope so. Mansplaining is a bit of this year’s wombspeak, a coinage of great self-satisfaction and smugness which attempts to put down reconciling reality to facts, naming fables when they are fables, and contesting any of the dogmas of the enlightened sisterhood, as mere condescension from the other gender. It should be paired with ‘femsplaining’ which is of course pure unshampooed truth — as determined, of course, by when and if it works for the cause.”

Earlier: Explaining “Mansplaining.”