52xMax wrote:Care to elaborate? Or explain, if you will.cmsellers wrote:I mean, there's a certain manner of condescendingly explaining/correcting which I've only ever encountered from men, typically online. I absolutely do believe mansplaining exists, it's just that the people who claim to call it out usually aren't.
On which part? I am sick and have been trying to not read threads where I need to make a thoughtful response, but I know I will forget to respond to this one if I do not do it now, so will try my best to answer.
I believe mansplaining exists, because there have been many times people on the internet (and sometimes IRL) have 1. told me I am wrong about something, 2. I have provided proof that I am right, and 3. they doubled down with vague rebuttals or resorted to ad-hominems. Every time this has happened IRL, and every time I have determined the gender of such a person online, they have been male. One IRL example that still sticks with me is a political science major in my Arabic class who corrected me calling Kurdish an Iranian language to tell me it was a dialect of Arabic.
However I believe that a lot of them people who complain about "mansplaining" are using it as a shield against criticism. For example, I have noticed that WRT the wage gap, pointing out that the figures they are using are dated and do not even take into account even obvious things like occupation or hours will get you labeled as a mansplainer who is trying to trivialize a serious issue.