stammsternenstaub: theactualcluegirl: animatedamerican: theragnarokd: spanishskulduggery: barbo
When men’s toxic behaviour transcends language.
In Spanish it’s machoplantear which is a combination of macho “male” and plantear(se) “to lay out (an idea) / to consider”
We could have had hombrexplicar [hombre “man” + explicar “to explain”] and I’m not sure why we didn’t? Some peopple disagree over which is better.
The noun form is el machoplanteamiento “mansplaining”
My guess is“hombrexplicar” doesn’t capture the critique of “machismo” in quite as pointed a way; that is, “machoplantear” points directly at the problem/the term already generally used to discuss problems of masculinity.
Anyway, I’m delighted by all of this.
You make a very good point
in hebrew it’s הסגברה / hasgvara - basically a mashup of hasbara (explaining, but also carries the implication of ‘propaganda’) and gever = man
this is the best thing I have seen all week :D
This needs more languages.
It’s the spectacular herrklären in German.
The Icelandic for it is “hrútskýra” (v.) - “hrútur” is a ram and “útskýra” is to explain. Rams are lovely and all but the image of a silly ram as well as how the word sounds make it super excellent imo!
