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oh, “patronizing bulldozing” is a great description. perhaps the true essence of mansplaining is the way it reduces the listener to an object, to be passively filled with wisdom rather than attended to as an equal and active participant

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avery

@averykimball

· Jul 7, 2020

listening to a dude lecture a chick about the evils of hierarchy, and she's not into it, but he's being super boorish about it never invoke mansplaining but there's no other way to describe this weird patronizing bulldozing he's attempting

10:27 PM · Jul 7, 2020Twitter for iPad

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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i was at a dinner party in chicago once where every single other person there talked about 50-100% longer uninterrupted than i was used to and it was super jarring. felt to me like they weren’t actually paying attention to the rest of the room to see if people were getting bored

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 7, 2020

(of course this is something i notice because i used to do it all the time and still do when i get too excited about stuff, mea culpa)

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 7, 2020

(also i recognize the irony in tweeting about this. every tweet is sort of mansplaining by default)

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tbh i do passively enjoy getting filled with wisdom (as long as it's interesting and i can understand it)?

Emily

@the_aiju

Jul 7, 2020

domsplaining

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oh sick i needed a way to call people out on this without using the word mansplaining

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One of the things I noticed after transition was that the same co-workers I've been with for half a decade suddenly felt the need to explain my own job to myself in detail

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

honestly fascinating

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This weekend I got an enthusiastic lecture from two guys about how awful it is to grow up queer in a fundamentalist family ... I was the only one in the group who'd had that experience