the term is mansplaining. it's a combination of man and explaining. and according to the urban dictionary a popular source of trendy terms, mansplain is what men do in order to, quote, dominate the conversation and to make statements that are not based on facts, assumed that people will believe and agreed with him as he is a male. once again, this attack on the idea of the authoritative male. and so, then decided they better pull down the masculine personality. they adopted a useful playfulness and hesitancy. i'm not batman, i'm a guy. and ironic, slow to commit, uncertain guide. just the other day i stumbled across this post from a popular female blogger. she called the post ask me out on a damn day. she continued in this vein, don't ask me to hang out with you, don't ask if i freeze sometime on friday night and said he will be in touch that night to see what's out. but asked me if i'm interested in getting a coffee sometime. asked me out on a damn freaking date. so you get that from a lot of young women today. on the one hand, they want this kind of