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Women Of Twitter Share Their Most Infuriating Mansplaining Stories

Men of Twitter can't handle it.

Writer and co-host of Buzzfeed’s podcast “Another Round,” Tracy Clayton, Tweeted on Tuesday morning about a Lyft driver who mansplained to her what an airport terminal was.

The concept of “mansplaining” was first articulated by author Rebecca Solnit in 2008, and women recognized the phenomenon immediately. Because, who among us hasn’t had a man patronizingly explain something that we already understand?

It resonated so deeply that the term was eventually added to Oxford’s online dictionary and even appeared on Jeopardy.

So, when Clayton asked women who follow her to share their “most infuriating” mansplaining stories, the anecdotes started rolling in.

women, what's the most infuriating thing you've had mansplained to you?

— Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) March 21, 2017

@brokeymcpoverty Vocal "gravitas," so my voice matches the content. In a letter about my show. Which I write, host and created.

— Lizzie O'Leary (@lizzieohreally) March 21, 2017

@lizzieohreally @biocuriosity @brokeymcpoverty once a man tried to explain an article to me. An article I wrote.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) March 21, 2017

@brokeymcpoverty how to correctly insert a tampon. no, this person was not a doctor.

— Charleyy Hodson (@CharleyyRachael) March 21, 2017

@brokeymcpoverty I once had a friend mansplain to my roommate how to ~correctly~ pronounce her own name bc he thought she was doing it wrong

— Aja Romano (@ajaromano) March 21, 2017

@tamerra_nikol @brokeymcpoverty I was told there was "no such thing as an accidentally pregnancy" because birth control exists.

— AliciaMelville-Smith (@alicia_ms) March 21, 2017

@brokeymcpoverty the election, by a white boy who's younger than me (a sophomore, i'm a junior) & started w/ "let me explain this to you" 🙄🙄

— burake (@its_burake) March 21, 2017

@brokeymcpoverty Explained to me the sexual deviancy, motivations,& curiosities of young girls in an attempt to justify/excuse pedophilia 😤

— PennyWithATee (@TeniNdidi) March 21, 2017

@brokeymcpoverty in college my friends and i ran an indie mag out of our editors apartment and a guy said i was using the word "indie" wrong

— Anna Fitzpatrick (@bananafitz) March 21, 2017

Are you irritated yet? No?

@brokeymcpoverty I recently had a guy mansplain pregnancy to me & 3 other women, 1 of whom has 4 kids. Miraculously he's still alive.

— Lauren Abramo (@LaurenAbramo) March 21, 2017

@brokeymcpoverty a pharmacist (man) told me I was choosing the wrong kind of painkiller for cramps.

So I asked him what he takes for his.

— ryan (@ryanmchristen) March 21, 2017

@brokeymcpoverty the difference between a screw and a nail in my own hardware store.

— jincha pero tropical (@a_cristina1318) March 21, 2017

Clayton responded that the stories women were submitting were making her want to “bite her phone in two.”

She also pointed that, in response to the stories, some men on Twitter were trying to mansplain mansplaining.

so many men in my mentions crying about the concept of mansplaining existing, I don't want to hear abt how emo women are again ever

— Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) March 21, 2017
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