Mansplaining and manspreading: Every woman’s nightmare. Twitter user Cathy de la Cruz tweeted an image of a statue on May 22 of a man standing with one foot on a bench speaking to a woman sitting down. Underneath the image, Cruz wrote: “#Mansplaining The Statue.” But, actually. A friend spotted this in Texas: #Mansplaining The Statue. pic.twitter.com/87RkAkuLcI May 22, 2015 The statue, named “New Friends,” lives on the San Antonio, Texas campus of the University of the Incarnate Word, a private Catholic University. The bronze duo might be “new friends,” or the dude might simply be explaining what a…
Mansplaining and manspreading: Every woman’s nightmare.
Twitter user Cathy de la Cruz tweeted an image of a statue on May 22 of a man standing with one foot on a bench speaking to a woman sitting down. Underneath the image, Cruz wrote: “#Mansplaining The Statue.” But, actually.
A friend spotted this in Texas: #Mansplaining The Statue. pic.twitter.com/87RkAkuLcI
— Cathy de la Cruz (@SadDiego) May 22, 2015
The statue, named “New Friends,” lives on the San Antonio, Texas campus of the University of the Incarnate Word, a private Catholic University. The bronze duo might be “new friends,” or the dude might simply be explaining what a bench is and how to use it to this poor young lady (a.k.a. mansplaining). And he’s manspreading — what a gem.
Twitter users appreciated the joke, retweeting the image over 2,500 times after writer Ann Friedman gave a shout-out:
Mansplaining: The Statue (via @SadDiego) pic.twitter.com/KKPLv1YV8F
— ann friedman (@annfriedman) May 22, 2015
The Internet offered some hilarious and imaginative ideas about the topic of conversation between the two bronze models:
@SadDiego @1aprildaniels Bet you ten dollars he’s telling her she’d be prettier if she smiled.
— Eileen Shyler (@EileenShyler) May 23, 2015
@SadDiego @Oni_42 his body language: can I take you over? hers: I don’t think so.
— Elisabeth Schubert (@cvtberlin) May 23, 2015
@SadDiego @ohhoe I also didn’t know it was possible to manspread in a standing position. He found a way.
— Paweł Szymczykowski (@makenai) May 23, 2015
@SadDiego @cvincentdugas This is what he’s mansplaining: "Now darlin’…I’m sure that’s the good word you’re reading. Or a cookbook."
— ScannerDrome (@ScannerDromeMag) May 23, 2015
@SadDiego @badgrammer She must be learning so many important things about how good he did at golf today.
— Ruckus Jones (@RuckusJones) May 26, 2015
One woman even chimed in that the statue looked familiar to her, tweeting an image of a very similar duo at Purdue University:
Official Statue of Mansplaining. Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, Purdue. pic.twitter.com/I4PTwXzGsn
— Emily Skaja (@emily_skaja) August 22, 2014
So there you have it: Mansplaining is literally set in bronze.
H/T The Daily Dot
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