Mansplaining in the comics

Today’s Dilbert has Alice exploding at the mansplainers in her department:

The pointy-headed boss can’t help mansplaining mansplaining.

On this blog, mansplaining and straightsplaining on 9/20/14.

Yesterday’s Dilbert was also about mainsplaining. We learn that mansplaining and failure in dating indicate “awesome technical skills”:

A full-stack programmer or developer seems to be one who can do everything.

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astraya Says:
April 9, 2015 at 5:10 am | Reply
I had seen the word ‘mansplaining’, but hadn’t checked its actual meaning. I had assumed that it meant explaining *to* a man *by* a woman!
Mansplaining – three ways to check whether you are guilty of it | Mothership.SG Says:
May 13, 2016 at 6:13 pm | Reply
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