I've been raising hell any time I encounter someone who uses the sexist and hateful slur "mansplaining." I wrote a letter of complaint to the Mars Corporation over their use of the term in their Super Bowl ad. There is no legitimate use of this word. It's used to shut down discussion via shaming, and it implies that a man's explanation is automatically invalid based on gender alone. Our society would never tolerate targeting other groups with this kind of word creation. Imagine if a major company like Mars had used words like "jewsplaining," "blacksplaining," "femsplaining," or even "chinasplaining." There would be an uproar, and rightfully so. So I wrote them back to let them know that's not acceptable.

I've also complained on social media any time someone uses that bigoted word. It's a word dreamed up by hateful feminists to denigrate men. There is no legitimate use of it. I've seen feminists claim it's needed to express the idea of a man explaining to a woman in a condescending way, but that's a cop out. That's still stereotyping men as people who act that way. Condescending speech has no gender. We have non-gender-biased terms in English for expressing that idea.

I've encountered people being very surprised that someone would object to this term. They try to belittle me to shut me up by saying the same old cliches like "fragile male ego," (which is another sexist and hateful term). But I won't back down. I've had it up to here with this bigoted term, and so I'm fighting back.

I'm curious if any of my brothers out there have had similar experiences, and what you've done to fight back against this hate speech. I won't stand for this hypocritical and sexist word being normalized. There are other man-bashing / sexist terms, but this is the one that really disgusts me.

If you've been fighting back as well, please let me hear from you. But if you wish to write to try to justify this term of hate, please don't bother. You should not try to justify misandry on a men's rights board. You can go find some other forum where this type of hate speech is tolerated.

But to those of you who have been fighting back against this bigotry, thank you.