"Katy Gallagher: I love the mansplaining. I am enjoying it. Mitch Fifield: You are loving what? Katy Gallagher: The mansplaining that is going on. … Mitch Fifield: What is "mansplaining", Senator? Katy Gallagher: Well, it is the slightly patronizing and condescending way that you are responding to my questions. Mitch Fifield: Well, I would suggest, Senator, that if you are putting the word "man" in front of some description of what I am doing, you are doing that which I am sure you are very much against, which is making a sexist implication about how I am conducting my role as a man. … Imagine the reactions, Senator, if I said you were "womansplaining". … I mean, I just find it extraordinary, Senator—I just find it extraordinary—that you or any Senator at this table would seek to invoke gender in impugning how a Senator is responding."
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