Everyone is wrong about mansplaining and it's very annoying. Mansplaining is a failure to negotiate a common conversation protocol, resulting in an annoying mismatch. This can be due to sexism but it isn't necessarily so.
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I’d be down with this in a power vacuum but men are privileged in a way women aren’t. Even if mansplaining is ‘just how men talk’ it would still be sexist in this cultural context I think.
Certainly I think there's an obligation to be a good conversationalist in many contexts but I think there's a wide variety of stable and useful conversation norms and insisting people always use your own rather than adapting to local ones is a doomed move.
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Also power is more complicated than that and "men always need to do things womens' way in any mixed group" is a nonstarter of a general solution.
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Does this change if you frame it in terms of accessibility? ‘Men have no obligation to make their comms intelligible to women’ feels icky and ableist kinda?
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