Thread by @ungender_in

This will be an ongoing #Thread on #Mansplaining:

Do you know what #mansplain means? Often women who are experts in their fields are countered online by men who either talk down at them or explain their subjects to them, unasked. Have you ever been mansplained?

2. The art of telling an author to read a book that she wrote. #mansplaining

3. One of our all-time favourite responses to #Mansplaining

4. In today's #mansplain Hall of Fame: @KiranManral, an author and a mother, being told how childbirth works.

5. In today's #Mansplaining.

6. Another example of how #Mansplaining works.

7. Ladies, have you been told that you do not know the correct spelling of your own name? #mansplain

Additionally read: Why are men still explaining things to women? irishtimes.com/life-and-style…

8. #Mansplaining 101: Telling an infectious diseases specialist she doesn't know what she is talking about, more so on a post of her personal loss. #gender #mansplain

9. #Mansplain: Women in IT repair? *Gasp*
Lived experiences of women who've had to convince that they are capable of doing their job.

10. This was too hilarious a tweet to pass up.

11. Ladies, does your heart start to race in delighted anticipation when a man knocks on your notifications, unasked, to say he has a recommendation on a subject in which you are an expert? No? #Mansplain

12. #Mansplaining: This evergreen classic of a man explaining how cameras work to @dayanitasingh, who is... a professional photographer.

13. Full props to friends who let you shine 👇🏾

Have you ever been ignored in a conversation completely as a man explained technicalities to your male companion even though you're an expert in the subject? It's #mansplaining.

14. #mansplaining: When men explain women's bodies and lived experiences to them.

15. When a man mansplains #mansplaining.

16. #Mansplaining — The act of explaining women's bodies to them or in some cases, even their own name.