Tweet by Margaret Atwood and a mansplainer's reply

  • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    Mansplaining has always been a stupid term that served no purpose other than to just whine and moan and blame men for any problem they could think of.

    At best its a guy actually being an asshole, at worst itā€™s just a guy who doesnā€™t know that the girl is knowledgeable on the topic.

    Especially in this meme, the dude probably just didnā€™t know the name of the person who wrote the book and was given misleading information. Heā€™s an idiot, yes, but anything beyond that is just looking for an excuse to shit on him because men bad.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I would say that mansplaining is an actual real phenomenon, sometimes directly so (guys that do believe they know better than women) and other times indirectly, in cultures were men behave in a more assertive and aggressive way than women in conversations in groups and take over the conversation, in practice creating situations were theyā€™ve taken over explaining something which a woman in the same group is vastly more qualified to explain.

      However the word ā€œmansplainingā€ has been so massivelly abused by mysandrists cosplaying as Feminists (to the point that in the last couple of years the most loud and frequent use of that word was by said mysandrists making prejudiced statements), that now thereā€™s a natural ā€œbullshit!ā€ reaction to anybody using it.