.... literally didnt explain anything. he just took it to be frustration caused by inexperience, cuz it's more likely for an inexperienced coder to get pissed at java than an experienced one to. go get triggered somewhere elsengoddamn
If mansplaining doesn't exist then I must've hit the statistical improbability jackpot when I worked in a lab with 15+ men who would try to explain my field of study to me pretty much daily (even though I had more advanced degrees than most of them).
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Ok. I have unskilled producers trying to explain shit to me all the time. One of them being female. Is it "womansplaining"
@unicycle, having someone attempt to explain your field of study to you isn't mansplaining, I know more women that do things like that than I do men who do things like that, there are a lot of men who do it, but it's not mansplaining, having someone attempt to explain your field of study to you is just life, it happens to most people at least once or twice in their life, it being 15+ men doing the explaining is just an unfortunate event, but it doesn't make it mansplaining.
I don't think mansplaining is a thing because being condescending is not gender exclusive but guys that expect women to be automatically bad at technical subjects still exist and are not rare. But feminists make it a huge fucking deal instead of focusing on actual oppression of women in Africa and the Middle East, which is why the entire movement is useless.
Maybe I just happened to be working with a bunch of condescending arseholes, but none of the women in that lab ever did anything like that. Also, has anyone noticed that it's almost always men who quickly say: "Oh mansplaining doesn't exist." Whereas if you ask a woman, she most likely has at least one story of it happening to her? Just food for thought.
Also, @ewqua, saying that feminism is "focusing" on anything is laughable. The movement is so widespread that there is no one goal at any time. So some feminists might be raising awareness about mansplaining while others are dealing with things like oppression in other countries. It's like saying "Why isn't the news covering this traffic accident in my town?" The national news isn't, but you change the channel and find that the local news is. If you aren't hearing feminists talk about global issues then you aren't on the right channel.
Look, I wouldn't think of mansplaining of a real issue if I hadn't experienced it firsthand. It's not just some men being condescending or arrogant (I've met plenty of condescending and arrogant women). It's a trend of men assuming that a woman has little/no knowledge of a subject (especially science or technology) and then explaining it in a simplified/condescending manner. This hasn't happened with every single man I've ever met, but I've never experienced this behaviour from a woman. So I don't know if it's a widespread issue, but I've definitely experienced it in my particular field.
@unicycle I'm a woman and I think mansplaining doesn't exist. As far as the widespreadness of feminism is concenred, you have a point there, however the most outspoken and "internet famous" feminists are just focusing on crap like manspreading and mansplaining and "tampon tax". It's not that there aren't any feminists who focus on actual issues, it's just that there are so few of them that they hardly get any attention unlike the feminazis who cry about oppression at everything they don't like. This is why I think the correct term for a "moderate feminist" is egalitarian which is what I identify as in terms of genderal equality.
@eternal1 Stop with the ad hominem attacks. It makes you look like you can't assemble any better arguments.
@ewqua I agree; it's usually the loud minority of a group that ruins it for everybody else. But I would say that the apparent focus of feminism being on seemingly-trivial issues has more to do with how the media reports on these things rather than the actual focuses of feminists. I get where you're coming from with egalitarianism, but I personally think that because femininity is what's looked down on (in both women and men), it's important to stress the /feminist/ aspect when dealing with gender equality. Also, egalitarianism is a separate thought doctrine and therefore shouldn't be conflated with feminism.
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"Minority" they have followers by the hundereds of thousands to the millions. Western feminism died.
@eternal1 Stop with the ad hominem attacks. It makes you look like you can't assemble any better arguments.