Category: mansplaining

Why men get furious at women who say they prefer the “dad bod”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date May 2, 2025
14 Comments on Why men get furious at women who say they prefer the “dad bod”

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“Dad bods” are stirring up trouble again. Last week, Evo Psych researcher William Costello posted an informal poll on X asking men and women (separately) which version of Olly Murs they thought looked the most attractive–a “normal” version of the English singer, looking basically fit but with a slight hint of a belly, or a muscled-up version of him after 12 weeks of intense workouts at the gym. The poll went viral, garnering some 725,000 views. And not surprisingly, if you’ve ever waded into the dad bod discourse before, the men mostly thought that muscley Murs looked better; women even more overwhelmingly preferred the “before” version.

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WARNING for water-drinking cervix-havers (and cervix-having water-drinkers) but not for water-drinking cervixes

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date May 7, 2022
16 Comments on WARNING for water-drinking cervix-havers (and cervix-having water-drinkers) but not for water-drinking cervixes

Remember to check BOTH of your cervixes!

On this lazy Saturday I’m gathering together a little collection of mansplainations I found catalogued on Reddit.

First, a public service announcement for uterus-having water-drinkers. Be careful out there!

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The Vaginal Misinformation Squad is out in full force

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date March 1, 2022
23 Comments on The Vaginal Misinformation Squad is out in full force

This is an actual stock photo, listed under “vagina.” I didn’t add the, er, sauce.

Vaginas can be a bit confusing, for those who don’t have them and even for some who do. That doesn’t stop some of the most confused men from confidently offering up their dubious wisdom on the subject, often in online conversations with actual vagina-havers. Call it Vaginasplaining.

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Men’s Rights man mansplains mansplaining

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date November 15, 2021
59 Comments on Men’s Rights man mansplains mansplaining

Sharksplaining

I saw this in the Men’s RIghts subreddit the other day and I almost wept with joy. Because here, in the wild, was a man mansplaining mansplaining.to feminists.

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Is The Handmaid’s Tale a parable about “the folly of the liberated woman?” One MGTOW says “yes.”

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date February 20, 2021
72 Comments on Is The Handmaid’s Tale a parable about “the folly of the liberated woman?” One MGTOW says “yes.”

What the fuck are you talking about, MGTOW?

Margaret Atwood has a unusual new fan — a commenter on the MGTOW2 subreddit who thinks that The Handmaid’s Tale is (unbeknownst to even Atwood herself) not a dystopian vision of a patriarchal theocracy but rather a sort of Red Pill parable on “the folly of the liberated woman.”

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Reddit NoFappers explain why women are like bees

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date October 7, 2020
48 Comments on Reddit NoFappers explain why women are like bees

So the guys over in the Semen Retention subreddit — a more hardcore spinoff of the larger NoFap subreddit — are discussing the mysteries of female nature, as weirdo misogynists are wont to do. Specifically, the guys are trying to explain to one another why men often seem socially awkward, while women seem like naturals who can easily get along with anyone.

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We Hunted the Mammoth Greatest Hits of 2019: Year of the Vulva

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date January 1, 2020
56 Comments on We Hunted the Mammoth Greatest Hits of 2019: Year of the Vulva

By David Futrelle

I suppose I’m a day late with this one, but I thought I’d take a look back at some of the most popular posts on We Hunted the Mammoth over the last year. SO let’s take a little trip down memory lane and remember 2019: The Year of the Vulva.

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Women literally get headaches when they think too hard, complete dumbass explains

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date August 9, 2019
115 Comments on Women literally get headaches when they think too hard, complete dumbass explains

Writing this post gave me a headache

By David Futrelle

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for some BAD SCENCE from the manosphere.

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He suddenly came home with a sex doll: Redditors gloat over a “concerned wife’s” incredibly fishy tale of woe

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date July 26, 2019
29 Comments on He suddenly came home with a sex doll: Redditors gloat over a “concerned wife’s” incredibly fishy tale of woe

By David Futrelle

Yesterday, a brand new Redditor calling herself (himself?) concernedwife123 posted her (his?) tale of woe in an assortment of subreddits — looking, allegedly, for some advice. The alleged woman explained how she had allegedly lost her alleged husband to an alleged sex doll with “huge tits and a round ass with very human like skin.” But she (allegedly) felt she couldn’t really complain, because she had been mostly turning him down for sex for months. She (allegedly) felt awful.

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Meet the man who mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale … to Margaret Atwood

Post author By David Futrelle
Post date July 8, 2019
36 Comments on Meet the man who mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale … to Margaret Atwood

Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale

By David Futrelle

With the right slowly but surely winning its war on the right to abortion, in both legal and practical terms, you might expect Margaret Atwood — you know, the author of the Handmaid’s Tale, the dystopian novel about an oppressively patriarchal state that’s been turned into a really very depressing Hulu series — to be feeling more than a little angry about the state of women’s rights in the US today.