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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Now, on some level, this does strike me as some kind of peacock plumage thing. But at the same time, they tend to get an accurate read on 1. the genres the other musician is interested in, and 2. their likely skill level, etc. The speed of it is actually quite impressive.
Yeah. I think it's tempting to treat status games as intrinsically invalid (certainly I hate them) but when it's a competence-derived status they probably serve a useful purpose.
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Indeed, and as much as I hate them, too, I recognize I'm definitely not immune to sizing people up. When I see the term "mansplaining" used in a way I find off-putting, it's usually because I suspect it's been used to play the same social status game by a different set of rules.
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I do this as well, and to me it's a way to quickly synchronize with another person, accelerate finding your common ground and the edges of your overlap
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