Damien Grant: I'm proud to be a mansplainerKEVIN STENT/STUFF The rise to power of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias (pictured) shows the institutional barriers keeping woman back have been destroyed, writes Damien Grant. The term refers to the practice of men explaining things they don't understand to women who do. DAVID WHITE/STUFF Damien Grant: Mansplaining has become a term of condescending abuse used by frustrated activists who arrived three decades too late to their revolution. Mansplaining has become a term of condescending abuse used by frustrated activists who arrived three decades too late to their revolution. And I'm proud.

Source: Stuff December 09, 2017 16:02 UTC