Mansplaining for good

Mansplaining is not explaining things to people that ask questions and obviously do not have the background knowledge to have the necessary context.

Whenever my kid asks a question, either I explain for like 5 minutes straight, or I stop whatever we're both doing and we look it up together.

Engage in their curiosity. Because they'll stop asking you one day.

Look, I don't want to be rude, and I definitely don't want to belittle women.
But when a subject comes up that I know something about, I just have this uncontrollable urge to share my knowledge.
Even if it then turns out that I'm trying to explain the principle of a programming language to Grace Hopper.

If you never had to answer "the boundary conditions of the universe" the kid wasn't even trying.

That's pretty much the opposite of mansplaining.
Mansplaining is when you're talking condescendingly to someone, while mistakenly assuming you have superior knowledge.

If that someone has asked you "Why?", or any question for that matter, then you'd need to start explaining something completely unrelated, in order to mansplain.

As a young child my father got very excited when I asked why the sky was blue. I hadn’t realized he was an optical engineer or that that was what kind of question I’d asked. But I remembered the term Rayleigh scattering

If that were true, it would have been called dadsplaining

So dadsplaining?

Dadsplaining is often mistaken for mansplaining but shouldn't be, as it's the same as momsplaining.

In this essay, I will...

The term mansplaining was abused to death long ago. This is just beating it's corpse.

So i avoided doing that and came up with terse explanations for nothing? I didn't want to scare my kid off from asking questions

This is the way