lady_disdain,
I found this link that I thought might explain a little more about our reaction:
http://fanniesroom.blogspot.com/2010/02/art-of-mansplaining.html
To quote:
The assumption that women who are rearing children are uninterested or incapable of educating themselves on how to do so is the offensive part.
I found this link that I thought might explain a little more about our reaction:
http://fanniesroom.blogspot.com/2010/02/art-of-mansplaining.html
To quote:
The mansplainer's problem isn't so much that he's trying to teach a woman something, but rather that he takes it as a given that she doesn't already know whatever it is he is going to tell her.
The assumption that women who are rearing children are uninterested or incapable of educating themselves on how to do so is the offensive part.