GeniesLoki

As I apparently didn't make it clear enough: When mansplaining happens, that is always bad. My claim is not that mansplaining is good. It's that: 1. There are multiple possible underlying causes. 2. There are multiple possible appropriate solutions that vary by cause

Additionally, without understanding the underlying dynamic, just trying to solve the problem by attempting to shame men into not mansplaining will mostly not work and will make things worse more often than it makes things better.

But this is why my claim is that *everyone* (OK, almost everyone) is wrong about mansplaining, because I think the two camps are basically "mansplaining is because you hate women" and "mansplaining is good, actually" and they're both bad takes.

Reasons why you might explain something to someone that aren't that you think they don't understand them.https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1301934471214780417 …

This incidentally is the thing that most regularly trips me up. I'm very into most feminine communication patterns but those are *good reasons* to explain things, and it's actually very frustrating to constantly litter these explanations with check ins and questions.

Yeah, this is pretty much what I do, but that solves the use case of (1) but not (2).