Justin Ward
1 min readAug 30, 2020

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It’s not “mansplaining” if the person on the receiving end genuinely doesn’t understand the subject at hand. It’s just explaining.

If I were condescendingly telling her something she already knew, that would be “mansplaining.”

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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