Katy Gallagher's Mansplain Moment

The Canberra Times

Has the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year become slightly ridiculous?  The 2023 winner was - shudder - "cozzie livs".  Is that something anyone says?  By contrast, the 2014 word of the year was "mansplain". Two years later, ACT Senator Katy Gallagher was still using the word to ferocious effect.

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00:00 The process you have just outlined is slightly different to the process outlined in the Cabinet

00:05 handbook about why matters are dealt with.

00:09 Can I just—

00:10 You have finished. That is why I restarted.

00:12 Okay, but let me just stop you so you do not waste a line of questioning. I am just giving

00:19 you—

00:20 I love the mansplaining. I am enjoying it.

00:22 You are loving what?

00:23 The mansplaining that is going on.

00:24 What are you—

00:25 Or just talking me through how—well, by not answering the question, by repeating processes

00:32 which are not related to the question that I have asked.

00:35 What is mansplaining, Senator?

00:36 Well, it is the slightly patronising and condescending way that you are responding to my questions.

00:42 Well, I would suggest, Senator, that if you are putting the word 'man' in front of some

00:46 description of what I am doing, you are doing that which I am sure you are very much against,

00:51 is making a sexist implication about how I am conducting my role as a man.

00:55 Well, then the easiest way to do it—

00:56 Is that what you are saying, Senator?

00:57 Well, what I am saying is that the way you have been responding to me has been patronising

01:01 and condescending, and I have responded to that. So the easiest way to deal with this

01:06 is not to—

01:07 By saying I am mansplaining. Imagine, Senator—

01:08 Is not to have that way in responding to the questions I have asked.

01:09 Imagine if I said you were womansplaining. Imagine the reaction, Senator.

01:09 to have that way in responding to questions of us.

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