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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Hmm though would a guy talk to a male expert about a topic and "mansplain" to the expert that topic? Probably not. So men know when to not mansplain to men but don't shift that when talking to women when it's inappropriate to "mansplain."
I think a lot of the time what's actually happening is one of several things such as: 1. They don't know the other person's expertise and are expecting them to interrupt to show they understand if they do. 2. They're explaining to show *they* understand and be corrected if wrong
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So when men talk to a male expert they engage in conversational moves that could degenerate into mansplaining, but the expert engages with those moves in a different way than a woman typically would, heading them off before it becomes a problem.
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It seems difficult ignore just how many technical people obviously rank their peer group based on who has memorized the most amount of minutia, and constantly engineer opportunities to show off. Not defending "mansplaining," which can also be used to re-sort the pecking order.
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This might be true but a) I think a lot of people sharing their special interests is going to look like that and b) I'm not fully convinced that this would be bad even if it were true.
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