When Commenters Demand Gross Realism

[ShelbyDawn57]

Why?

Part of me wants to explain it to you in excruciating detail. The bigger part just wants you to hold me and tell me you understand.
EDIT: and maybe hand me the fucking screw driver...

 

[SmilingLez]

Part of me wants to explain it to you in excruciating detail. The bigger part just wants you to hold me and tell me you understand.
EDIT: and maybe hand me the fucking screw driver...

I would hold you, but I would not understand. Misogyny and mansplaining has always angered me

 

[Britva415]

Mansplaining is fundamentally men believing that they are somehow intrinsically wiser and smarter than women, I guess based on their anatomy. I don't know when that level of disrespect turns into enough hatred to be called misogyny. But it is definitionally built of a deep rooted disrespect for women, which is pretty damned close to misogyny if it doesn't reach it.

This is why I said "to some people:"

There are many others who do not have the above in mind when they fling the word around. Half the time, it's literally just namecalling anymore. They say it just because they know it will provoke defensiveness.

 

[iwatchus]

This is why I said "to some people:"

There are many others who do not have the above in mind when they fling the word around. Half the time, it's literally just namecalling anymore. They say it just because they know it will provoke defensiveness.

My apologies. I thought you were arguing that mansplaining wasn't that bad. Of course, I do not see the term thrown around inaccurately all that often. I just see it excused as not that bad.

 

[SmilingLez]

This is why I said "to some people:"

There are many others who do not have the above in mind when they fling the word around. Half the time, it's literally just namecalling anymore. They say it just because they know it will provoke defensiveness.

For most topics, I agree 100% with you. However when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth, 99.999% of males should zip it

 

[Britva415]

One very very hot take I have about mansplaining is this:

A man can't talk to a woman the same way he can talk to a man. Something that he can say to a man which is not called mansplaining, he cannot say the exact same thing the exact same way with the exact same intentions (in other words, none of this) to a woman or it's called mansplaining.

If I didn't think that it was just a misunderstanding of his motivations, which I already think is wrong and indefensible, then I would think it was gaslighting and sexist.

I'm not even saying a man can't mansplain to a man, it happens, I'm talking about a double standard.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Mansplaining is fundamentally men believing that they are somehow intrinsically wiser and smarter than women, I guess based on their anatomy. I don't know when that level of disrespect turns into enough hatred to be called misogyny. But it is definitionally built of a deep rooted disrespect for women, which is pretty damned close to misogyny if it doesn't reach it.

I've witnessed plenty of men mansplain to other men, though.

--Annie

 

[iwatchus]

There are certainly some men (and some women) who are just arrogant towards everyone. But I have more often seen unqualified men explaining something to a woman but conceding to an equally unqualified second man

 

[Britva415]

I've witnessed plenty of men mansplain to other men, though.

--Annie

And nobody gets outraged

 

[MattblackUK]

Did he date a midwife? Or did he have a 60 second speed date session with a woman who claimed to be a midwife?