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Mansplainers

You guys, nobody likes a mansplainer! You know those dudes who need to explain something to you that you already know? In Rebecca Solnit’s LA Times essay “Men Who Explain Things,” she recounts the time some pedantic schmo explained a book to her, not knowing that she was the author! This is part of a complete episode.

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