The Times published a piece (£) on “mansplaining”. In the comments section, this gem from a (male) reader:

“What about female alternative of ‘shelaborating’ when a woman constantly gives you chapter and verse on a particular subject instead of edited highlights! In this case the woman has made no prior attempt to determine whether she has already told you about this subject matter in the past and remains oblivious to the man’s boredom/frustration when they are on the receiving end of this unabated verbiage.”

Psychologists at the University of Leighton Buzzard conducted a national study in 2022 and discovered that while the average women uttered more than 3x the words in an average day compared with the average man, 40% of what the women said was repetition of guff they’d already uttered. “Guff” is the technical term used by psychologists to describe women’s utterances likely to be of zero interest to the average man.

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