by Colback's Orange Tufts » Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:59 am
Maybe sometimes it's misused/overused, but I think mansplaining is a real and common thing. I have worked in two male dominated industries using alot of numerical methods and I see it happening alot. Still a subconscious perception of numerical stuff as male. In my old physics life I'd see it happen to female colleagues alot. I can't think of examples, but I wouldn't be surprised if I previously have slipped into it.
You see classic examples online, like some bloke explaining Roman culture to Mary Beard. Or when a woman on twitter makes a dumb pun/joke and someone pipes up with 'actually...'. In terms of it being used 'obnoxiously' I think on the comparative the tide of obnoxious behavior men put onto women is larger. And often these 'debates' are not wanted by the women, Ie a woman says something and a random man pops up arguing; when she doesn't bother to engage he will be like "oh you can't even have a debate nowadays", when infact she'd just got better things to do
As for the term being horrible, it's a bit messy but I think it comes from manspreading so I can see why.
Maybe sometimes it's misused/overused, but I think mansplaining is a real and common thing. I have worked in two male dominated industries using alot of numerical methods and I see it happening alot. Still a subconscious perception of numerical stuff as male. In my old physics life I'd see it happen to female colleagues alot. I can't think of examples, but I wouldn't be surprised if I previously have slipped into it.
You see classic examples online, like some bloke explaining Roman culture to Mary Beard. Or when a woman on twitter makes a dumb pun/joke and someone pipes up with 'actually...'. In terms of it being used 'obnoxiously' I think on the comparative the tide of obnoxious behavior men put onto women is larger. And often these 'debates' are not wanted by the women, Ie a woman says something and a random man pops up arguing; when she doesn't bother to engage he will be like "oh you can't even have a debate nowadays", when infact she'd just got better things to do
As for the term being horrible, it's a bit messy but I think it comes from manspreading so I can see why.