Nailed it. Self awareness and awareness of the listeners’ interest level (or lack thereof) is a key factor for all intelligent peeps who want to share their knowledge but wish to avoid being a Cliff Claven.
Again:
Mansplaining isnt simply whenever a man explains anything to a woman; and those who glibly try to insist that’s what women mean by the term are doing themselves and everyone else a disservice.
Mansplaining is a very specific type of condescension and marginalization directed at women based upon the automatic assumption of ignorance due to to gender.
A guy simply explaining something to a woman who was truly previously unaware of the info he’s providing isn’t what we’re talking about when we use the term.
Lastly, nobody really cares if anyone’s ‘offended’ by the term for whatever reasons; it’s apt, and it’s not likely to fall out of usage any time soon.
