Manspressions : Decoding Men's Behavior (Real World) - Softcover

Joe Biel; Elly Blue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621068986 ISBN 13: 9781621068983

Publisher: Microcosm Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Manspressions is a timely and hilarious look at the behaviour of men, right from mantrums to manger. Said behaviour has been getting a lot of press recently; there are the mansplainers who talk over you and the manspreaders who invade space on a train by spreading their legs out wide. What makes them act the way they do? Embracing the new wave of feminism that has spawned kickass YouTube videos and fierce feminist hashtags, Manspressions creates a common language for topics that were once difficult to talk about because we lacked the words to do so.

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About the Author

Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. Biel is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing, Publishers Weekly's #1 fastest-growing publisher of 2022 and #3 in 2023. Biel has been featured in Time Magazine, Esquire, Art of Autism, Reading Glasses, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll, as well as on NPR and PBS. Biel is the author of A People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business with Autism, and dozens more. Biel is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & a T-Shirt, and the Groundswell film series. Biel lives in Portland, OR. Find out more at joebiel.net. Elly Blue is a co-owner and the vice president of Microcosm Publishing, and the co-host of the People's Guide to Publishing podcast. Her books include Everyday Bicycling and Bikenomics, and she is the editor of the annual Bikes in Space anthology of feminist bicycle science fiction. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner, their dog, and a small fleet of cargo bicycles. Meggyn Pomerleau is a designer living in Portland. She enjoys cycling, burritos and her dog.

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A brief selection of the manspressions contained within these pages:

Manologue: A man is talking. Resistance is futile.
Manversation: Two men are talking. Nobody is listening.
Manfusion: You used to understand things perfectly, but now you aren't so sure.
Manpropriation: Your idea was genius, and he is getting a raise for it.
Mansparency: When he makes the mistake of telling you what he's really thinking
Mancouragement: Men leading other men to misbehave
Mansploitation: The harsh reality that everyone, everywhere is secretly out to get men
Maneuvering: The bewildering process that occurs when you explain to a man how he has upset you and five minutes later you somehow find yourself comforting his wounded feelings.
Manchalance: Fear of manspression

Edition details

• Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1621068986
• ISBN 13: 9781621068983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128