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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IDK I see people getting mad at each other over simple miscommunications causing them to read bad intent from the other party so incredibly often that it doesn't seem like a weird complicated theory so much as the default explanation.
Like yeah, arseholes exist, and aren't super rare. "That person was an arsehole" is a reasonable explanation, but "I keep encountering this arsehole behaviour over and over again" should always look pretty fishy and invites further explanation.
