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Discussion on: Why I'm Not One of the Guys

 
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Samuel-Zacharie FAURE

You have to realize getting mansplained regularly is a terrible experience that a lot of women live nowadays.

Would you be happy if people from the opposite (and favored) gender would regularly belittle you, patronize you, and assume they know more than you... just because you're not a man ?

After you worked a decade to become an expert in something, you get mansplained by a dude which expertise is that he saw a documentary on the topic two years ago, but he knows better than you because he's a man?

Mansplaining is not "a man's opinion", by definition it's "a man's ignorant opinion". It's disrespectful and is both a cause and a consequence of sexism.