No Story Here
For good reasons, I never studied journalism. I have no capacity to anticipate reader interest. It's a flaw in my fiction as well. So I suspect this is a non-story. Fortunately, it's also a personal blog. Something has been happening to me fairly often lately, and I wanted to express my frustration about it. I keep getting 'splained. 'splaining is short for "mansplaining" - shortened because it's not always men who do it. When a person proceeds to offer a personal lecture on a subject with which you are already very familiar, he or she is 'splaining. I suspect that 'splaining is another symptom of over-education, especially with people who are accustomed to needing to explain everything all the time because they have become experts in a field so specialized that nobody really cares. 'Splainers don't even think about it anymore; they just assume you don't know anything and proceed to enlighten you. Particularly pernicious, mansplaining i...