{"id":613,"date":"2017-02-16T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2017-02-16T15:41:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:41:31","slug":"iu-now-offering-mansplaining-as-second-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/iu-now-offering-mansplaining-as-second-language\/","title":{"rendered":"IU Now Offering Mansplaining as Second Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By: Pink Freud<\/p>\n<p>BLOOMINGTON, IN &#8212; Indiana University has just announced plans to begin offering the art of overly simplifying and talking down to other people as a second language for all those who aren&#8217;t quite sure what a man means when he is explaining something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first came to IU from Yale, which is where I received my degree, Yale being a pretty well known school,\u201d said mansplaning expert Professor Manfred Jackman. \u201cI noticed that a lot of the women here tended to have trouble communicating with all of the men in their ivory towers. I hope that this course, mansplaining, which I am teaching, at IU, which is short for Indiana University, will help men and women develop a more rounded understanding of each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jackman compares mansplaining to a premade pie crust. According to Jackman, instead of struggling through the tedium of working your way through all the confusing steps of cooking a pie, a wife on the go can simply buy a crust and fill it with the testosterone rich foods that her man so craves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of experience interacting with women,\u201d said Dr. Jackman. \u201cHaving worked as an administrator at a start of tech firm, I\u2019ve often encouraged my female employees to smile more and&#8211;just in general&#8211;feel more comfortable with their bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to university officials, the class will count as a world culture&#8217;s credit, which they asked us to clarify as being a pre-requisite for most majors, meaning that you will have to take it in order to graduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Pink Freud BLOOMINGTON, IN &#8212; Indiana University has just announced plans to begin offering the art of overly simplifying and talking down to other people as a second language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[294,210,58,59,290,293,291,292],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hoosierflipside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/mansplaining.jpg?fit=750%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7b5Hd-9T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoosierflipside.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}