Esther McCarthy: Enough mansplaining, here's some womansplaining for ye

Like it or lump it, listen up jerks!
I feel we need to balance things out for all the midlife women out there. Picture: iStock

I feel we need to balance things out for all the midlife women out there. Picture: iStock

Mansplaining. Has it ever happened to you? My favourite story is Rebecca Solnit’s and it’s a doozy. At a dinner party, a man starts lecturing her about a very important book. Plot twist — the book is hers, she wrote it.

Your man hadn’t even read it, he’d just seen a review of it.

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