No More Mansplaining

These man-shaming portmanteaus have got to go

- Hannah Choo

WOMEN CAN BE STRANGE. Feminists, to be exact. No doubt, we need to redress egregious issues of sexual inequality, such as the condoning of rape and domestic violence. Apart from women still not being paid equal money for an equal amount of work everywhere, in India bridal burning accounts for the death of at least one woman every hour.

It’s a sick world, and it’s not likely to get better anytime soon. Women have every right to be enraged. And some men do need to be put in their place if we are to build an egalitarian utopia. However, it is those small, personal issues that get them running their mouths. One minute they could be talking about the best steak in town. The next, they would be embroiled in a stand-off-about pornography. Men have had their dates end abruptly without dessert but a pain in their eyes that says, “Bill, please.”