Random Rambling Rants: The definition of "Mansplaining" and "Haruhi Suzumiya's a man's series!"

"And I am a man!" Zeta Gundam jokes (and an appeal to sense and not fostering fear at the end) aside, according to Know Your Meme "Mansplaining" is "An Internet slang term used to describe condescending and inaccurate explanations that are given under the assumption that the audience is entirely ignorant on the subject matter or topic." then again, there's the first posted Urban Dictionary definition which is, "To explain in a patronizing manner, assuming total ignorance on the part of those listening. The mansplainer is often shocked and hurt when their mansplanation is not taken as absolute fact, criticized or even rejected altogether. Named for a behavior commonly exhibited by male newbies on internet forums frequented primarily by women. Often leads to a flounce. Either sex can be guilty of mansplaining." (The bold bits are my emphasis) But it seems that a certain gaming group prefers to use the more "mens rights"-ish definitions from Urban Dictonary.com especially when trying to make a bully's victim look like just as much of a bully. Such as...

"A sexist term used by misandrist women to disrespect, belittle and devalue the opinion of her male peers in an attempt to make herself appear smarter or better in comparison." Dude! WTF!? I'm not misandrist and does not have to do with a insufficient self-image! But this one, unfortunately, describes what happened...

"Originally, this term was used to describe boorish men who felt the need to "correct" what a woman said, even on topics that the man didn't know anything about." Indeed...

"However, the term quickly degenerated into a get-out-of-jail-free card used by angry women when a man dares to point out even the most blatant error." *sigh*

Even women can make manga series that play to certain male fantasies, like for example...

• "DearS" (magical girlfriend series) is created by Peach-Pit, the name for a duo of female manga-ka.
• "Chobits" (another magical girlfriend series) is created by Clamp, the name for a group of FOUR female manga-ka.

Then again, there are other Shounen series (both FullMetal Alchemist and D.Gray-Man) that are made by female manga-ka, and those just happen to be a few of the series I like reading/watching, for one reason or another. Speaking of genres, terms like "Shounen" (teenage boys), "Shoujo" (teenage girls), "Seinen" (young men), or "Jousei" (young women) refer to target demographics, not necessarily to their content. For instance...

• Claymore: A series mostly about an action girl, Clare, who just happens to be one of the eponymous "half-youma youma slayers" (shounen).
• Natsume's Book of Friends: A slice-of-life series following the life of a teenage boy, Takashi Natsume, in which some (okay, a lot) of the (at times life threatening) problems he deals with involves his ability to see youkai...sometimes they're referred to as "ayakashi", oh well... (Shoujo).

And let's not forget a certain series that focuses on the antics of a teenage girl who's always looking for interesting things, and by "interesting" we mean "stuff that's obviously supernatural. And, maybe it's because both Claymore and this series have a male point-of-view character, "Haruhi Suzumiya" is...a seinen series. So, like I said at the beginning, Haruhi Suzumiya is a man's series! (No, I'm not repeating the Zeta Gundam joke!)

*Looks up* Wow, look the number of topic transitions I had to make to go from something that leaves me feeling distressed (the abuses of the aforementioned gaming group) to something I more enjoy talking about (facts and trivia involving the series I love so much)! And I'd rather not turn this blog about something I love into a criticism of an abusive group's sheltering of an asshole (a "hole" that spouts nothing but bullshit and hot air) who's likely to rape someone interfering with something else I love, tabletop role-playing games. But, if that's necessary to prevent someone else from getting hurt as badly or worse, then that's a burden I must shoulder...