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“My name. A colleague literally told me I had spelt my own name wrong.”

On Wednesday, Nicole Froio, a women’s studies PhD candidate living in the UK, asked women to share the “most obvious thing a man has ever mansplained to you.”

Twitter: @nicolefroio

And OH BOY did the internet deliver.

Twitter: @TheBrightgeist

In case you’re wondering what exactly MANSPLAINING is, well:

The term was originally coined after Rebecca Solnit wrote the 2008 essay “Men Explain Things To Me,” which chronicles the time Solnit had a conversation with a man who attempted to school her on a book she actually wrote.

Twitter: @nicolefroio

And there are seemingly NO LIMITS on what men will mansplain to women.

twitter.comjbranscome72

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