"Mansplaining"-was a popular neologism for when a man assumes a woman doesn't know about a topic. Far more often, I see "opponentsplaining" where one person assumes, because your view differs from theirs, that you have only started thinking about the topic at that very moment.
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Replying to @sentientist
Often overlooked about the "mansplaining" phenomenon: men mansplain to each other. More than once I've had women who were present express concern/alarm when a male friend and I get into it over some political disagreement ("I thought you guys were going to get into a fight").
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And apparently it's uncontroversial among political scientists that men score significantly higher on political knowledge tests ("how many supreme court justices are there", "which of these accurately summarizes the 4th amendment", "how is the unemployment rate calculated")
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I make this second point only because in some cases it is simple the case that one person DOES understand exactly how the unemployment rate is calculated in the United States, while the other person doesn't. So you have to "mansplain" the fundamentals, otherwise there's no point.
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That's not just for general political knowledge; it's across almost all facets of general knowledge.
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