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 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
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.
