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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Ex: knowing you’ve done physics phd research, and still starting an explanation like “you see, there’s this field called *quantum mechanics* that says that energy comes in tiny pack—“
(I just have not seen men do this to each other at nearly the rate I’ve experienced it)
So it is definitely the case that men underestimate women and I don't want to minimise that. The communication mismatch I have in mind is that I think there are a lot of cases where it sounds like that's what's happening and isn't quite what's going on.
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It's definitely true that men do not mansplain to men at the same rate they do to women, but I think an unacknowledged large component of that is that this is because men respond differently when they start the conversation that could turn into a mansplain.
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The French analogy wasn't intended to be about technical terminology, it's about different conversation protocols. E.g. explaining something to someone doesn't mean that I think they don't understand it.https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1301938833882329088?s=19 …
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