"New Zealand company Nutralife categorises this product as 'Women's Health' and says it's to help 'reduce melanin production'. What are the health benefits of reduced melanin, other than if you're whiter you'll probably get better healthcare?" asks a reader.
The finer points of mansplaining
Mansplaining is not simply men explaining stuff to women, it's men assuming women couldn't possibly know about a certain subject and talking over women. The term originated after Rebecca Solnit wrote an essay about a conversation she had with a man, in which he explained a book she actually wrote. The best examples include your run-of-the-mill obvious mansplain, like this: "I recently met a dude who spent half an hour explaining to me how Spanish dialects work. This was right after I had told him that I grew up in Spain. He had taken Spanish for one year in high school, 20 years ago." And it is not only on social media, it's in real life like this: "Brand new employee came in on his first day and tried to tell me how to do the job that I was training him for, then bitched to our boss that I was training him wrong (still on the first day btw). The manager told the new guy to take over for the day since I *obviously* didn't know how to do my job and I was given a paid day off by my manager. Came in the next day to find the guy had quit."
Epic jargon, dude
A reader with an interest in newly created words joining the English language notices a recently-coined corporate favourite: outplacement. It replaces "made redundant" or "fired". Do you know anymore?
