I’m going to exit the thread with a final comment, @Melz2. And then I really will exit.
All I think I was looking for, personally, was even a small bit of acknowledgement that sometimes the word is indeed tossed out in the wrong context. It has happened to me, as I explained. I never denied that mansplaining is a real thing, that it’s representative of a problem, our society’s deep misogyny. Just that, sometimes, it gets thrown around when the situation is not, as your definition goes, “mansplaining.”
Now, I’m not going to cry myself to sleep that I didn’t get that, let’s just call it validation. That’s not-so-much why I hang out on the bb forums, I have other areas in my life for that. However, the degree to which my point was invalidated, that was perhaps a bit surprising to me.
shrug
And off I go… See you in the next thread. 
