'Mansplaining' cld describe condescending responses. Still not justified to gender it & doing so undermines the validity of the criticism. https://twitter.com/wittysense/status/848570909992595458 …
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If men & women do have different styles of speech on average & there's good reason to think they do, calls for charitable assessments.
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I did start writing a thing abt uncharitable assessments of women's speech historically & how this relates to 'mansplaining' now.
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Many, many sermons from late medieval period attacking what could be understood now as 'womanwittering' and 'womansnarking.'
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'Jangling' was the term often used - chatting generally without addressing any subject rigorously.
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Men, it was held, talked directly and to the point, exchanging information &women impeded this with more general & free flowing conversation
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Essentially, men mansplained things to each other & to women which was good & women womanjangled over it & this was bad.
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It struck me at the time as the same characteristics seen in a different light. You can present both as either negative or positive.
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By 'at the time' I mean the time I was researching gendered attitudes towards speech. I was not alive in the late medieval period. #ShutUp
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