07-30-2018, 08:14 PM
(07-30-2018, 06:22 PM)hollodero Wrote: Fifth. You explain stuff without being asked to do so, and you might be percieved as degrading someone, to a person in need of your intellectual help which was graciously provided. It can be off-putting to be put in that position. When there's a pattern of you doing it selectively (e.g. towards women) instead all of the time, you might be called a mansplainer. If you're doing it all the time, you might also be called a mansplainer, of course.
(07-30-2018, 06:44 PM)treee Wrote: Probably a relic of a bygone era where men occupied 99% of the work force, and therefor had a more "worldly view" and talked down to women because their spectrum of experiences were not as broad. Just a guess though.
This combination can best describe it. I think that the big reason this has become a thing as of late is because women feel, and legitimately so, that they are being pushed out of a lot of conversations. Mansplaining is an attempt to push them out of a conversation and is often very condescending. We also see this sort of thing in other categories. Whitesplaining, straightsplaining, and cissplaining are all things that I have seen people refer to. Oftentimes, people are called out for it most when they are injecting themselves into a conversation about gender, sexuality, race, etc., and disregarding the point of view of the minority, not acknowledging the position of privilege from which they speak.
That being said, those aren't the only times it is called out. Those are just the times I have seen most often.
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