mansplaining

opera

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

journalist

television critic

has enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind and our infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize. . . that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions. Cleveland Amory

is perturbing for the individual and ideologically problematic because it is not just a temporary and legitimate lapse into the didactic mode for an adult woman, it perpetuates 'the didactic' as a permanent mode of discourse vis-a-vis women.

In other words, 'mansplaining' is perturbing for the individual (and ideologically problematic) because it is not just a temporary and legitimate lapse into the didactic mode for an adult woman... it perpetuates the myth of the ignorance of women relative to men.Thus, while an adult life is full of contextual, situated moments of didactic discourse, the didactic is not - or should not ideally be - a permanent mode of discourse for an adult (whether as speaker or addressee).

is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title- expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

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