{"id":173,"date":"2021-10-01T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=173"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:51:45","slug":"open-letter-to-all-mansplainers-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to all mansplainers: Thank you."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Mansplainers,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On behalf of all women everywhere, thank you. I don\u2019t know what us feeble and utterly incompetent creatures would do without your profound explanations of every single topic to ever exist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It amazes me how you can know so much about everything. I didn\u2019t know people could be experts in so many fields, but I guess I was wrong. I am a woman after all, what can you expect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would like to take this time to now personally thank a mansplainer who, out of the goodness of his heart, sacrificed his time and patience to explain so many difficult concepts to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought I knew what satire was before, thanks to Ralph, I now know how wrong I was. I would like to apologize for my stupidity and hope Ralph, if you can take time out of your busy schedule helping women, please forgive me and my pea-size woman brain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, I would like to thank Ralph for explaining to me what mansplaining is. Funnily enough, it sounded a lot like what he was doing but what would I know? Unfortunately, my delicate genetic make-up makes me incapable of being right about anything. Long live the patriarchy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mansplainers,&nbsp; On behalf of all women everywhere, thank you. I don\u2019t know what us feeble and utterly incompetent creatures would do without your profound explanations of every single topic to ever exist.&nbsp; It amazes me how you can know so much about everything. I didn\u2019t know people could be experts in so many fields, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}