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lumberjack_jeff

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5. Pfft. You're a guy! What can you be expected to know about guy behavior?
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 12:19 AM
Sep 2012

The question wasn't really a question. It is a conversation starter used within her circle of friends to demean/diminish the guys in her life so that the actual topic of conversation (which she'll soon get to) doesn't look so trivial and superficial.

e.g. ... "and he was totally looking at her butt as she walked away, and I was like... uh 'hello!'. How rude, right? So anyway, have you seen the new purses at ...."

You made the faux pas of misunderstanding the actual nature of the conversation. You mansplained the actual reasons that he was looking at her butt, and interrupted the conversation as it was intended to progress.

Bah! If you don't understand, then I can't explain it to you.

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