Oh man!
While sitting at home, feeling sorry for myself with a bout of man-flu , this article about a curious phenomenon called manterrupting popped up on Twitter. Apparently, manterrupting is when males interrupt women in meetings and/or co-opt (or bropropriate* ) their ideas as their own. It's a man-word like these explained here by Stan Carey on the MacMillan Dictionaries blog and makes use of the man- prefix that has become so productive in recent years. So far we've had... mansplaining : patronising explanations delivered by men to women of things that women probably already know more about (Urban Dictionary definition here ) manspreading : sitting on public transport and spreading one's sweaty flannels in order to secure more seat space (Collins Dictionary definition here ) manscaping : removing unsightly body hair to make oneself more attractive (Oxford Dictionaries definition here ) manslamming :aggressive pavement action involving a man barging into people (often women)...