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Showing Original Post only (View all)I've noticed something... [View all]
If "mansplaining" is
To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it because she is a woman.
What is this?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022666059#post91
"as pointed out yesterday an example"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12591107#post2
boston bean explained to you quite clearly the difference between using 'gender' only and not also including sexism and misogyny. This has been talked about for some time now. You can find it on an old ATA here, you can probably find it in the dozens of posts in the Welcome thread Gormy Guss started to talk about this, you can also find it on the Meta threads if you have access.
It has been explained quite clearly, over and over.
I think we all realize this will not be the cure all, but not even trying it out is sending a really bad message.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12591107#post6
There will always be the exception and someone will go over the line and get banned for that, as you pointed out and as we all understand, but the Overall Unacceptability of posts like these is well understood. It is clear. As a bell.
These are just the three examples that I recall, but I seem to have run across it with fair regularity. I am wondering if the creation of a special type of condescension known as "mansplaining" was created to satisfy a market for developers of ideology to claim ownership of a type of human failing shared by both sexes? If that is the case, what human failings have been coopted for as an hommage to the male gender?
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it should be, I think. I think gender should be taken out of the equation and we should try to
Tuesday Afternoon
Apr 2013
#3
I agree that we should try to respect each other as humans, and as individuals.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2013
#5
I agree. I do not use the term myself but, if you are condescending toward me,
Tuesday Afternoon
Apr 2013
#7
well, lord knows! I am not either. I think i am pretty infamous in that regard. -
Tuesday Afternoon
Apr 2013
#11
I agree that as the 1% get a strangle hold on all of us that these gender issues are
Tuesday Afternoon
Apr 2013
#17
Except, it's basically used to shut down any explanation coming from someone who is male.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2013
#4
In your last example, she seems to be implying that admin can't or wont understand
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2013
#6
I wonder how one could argue convincingly from a position of that kind of certainty
rrneck
Apr 2013
#10
"why bother ourselves with reality where there's an agenda to be pushed?"
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2013
#12
I'll say this: I think for some things there are simply larger forces at work.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2013
#14