Why I Mansplain

It’s an Age Thing.

As we get older and uglier, we usually end up getting smarter, or at least more knowledgeable. That means if we can’t catch a woman’s attention with our looks, we try to do it by showing off how smart we are. Are there really young women out there with Geezer-filia, who can be attracted to an old man simply because he’s smart? Maybe, but I don’t really care. I've already got the only woman I ever really wanted, and have been married to her for decades. Nevertheless, that doesn’t stop me from enjoying it when a pretty young woman looks at me with some interest for a few moments (before she moves on to someone younger and better looking.) Sometimes I try to capture that kind of interest by talking about what I know, and sometimes that works. Other times I probably end up being a tiresome old bore. However, if the lady in question knows more about the topic than I do, and I’m not perceptive enough to notice this, I run the risk of being rightly accused of mansplaining. Let’s face it, if she doesn’t know something about the topic already, she probably won’t be interested in what I have to say about it. And if she does know something about it, she probably knows something I don’t know.

So, fellow geezers, if the lady you were trying to impress gives ANY indication that she knows something about the topic you are talking about, immediately ask her to tell you what she knows. Phrase everything you were going to say as a question and ask her whether it is true, within her experience. We are not peacocks, and in many cases the female…