Whew, time for me to take a break from courting controversy on here ... ... ... ok so I've been thinking about the word "mansplain" 1/n
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You know what, this was originally a joke but I really do have thoughts Presumably people who use "mansplain" consider the word fair because they think the behavior it describes (explaining something to someone w/more expertise than you) is more common among men than women 2/n
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But how *much* more common does a behavior need to be among men for it to warrant a man-specific term? Like, presumably if the ratio of women-to-men engaging in this behavior was 4:5 then it wouldn't merit a gendered word like "mansplain" 3/n
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Let's take a poll. How much more common does [the behavior dubbed 'mansplaining'] have to be among men compared to women, in order to justify using the word "mansplain" when men do it ?
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You don't have a button for this, but I vote for "mainsplaining is a really dumb concept, but it's fine to keep the word around, if only to make up for the word hysterical."
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