One reason the term "mansplaining" gets abused is that it often extends to an objection to *how men talk to each other* and even, to some extent, how men talk to themselves. In short, to how men talk at all.
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If you've ever listened to two men talk in a bar or a coffee shop, you have probably noticed that the vast majority of what each guy says is something the other guy already knows.
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Before the mid-20th century, it was a commonly understood aspirational value for American men to be in meaningful ways self-made: not simply schooled & advanced through institutions. The Revolution was made by men self-taught in war & politics & even science. Ditto Lincoln.
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The "middlebrow" American man does not, whatever the "highbrow" man tells you, mean uninterested in knowledge; quite the contrary.
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Wait are you seriously saying this was a good take?
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The Atlantic piece? Yes. Sure, the writer didn't want to be that guy, but at least he understood that guy.
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Well dawgone here you go again! Why is this baseball speaking so much sense? I dont get it! We have people going crazy everywhere and I'm over here listening to an inanimate object speak truth...the world has truly gone crazy....
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To sum it all up https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o …
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The author gets it so right sometimes: "...many men respond to that. I respond to that. The competitive energy, the drive to succeed, the search for purpose, for self-respect," and then in the very next paragraph derides telling jokes for "hurting others".
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I think "...a good point coming out of the wrong mouth doesn’t count for squat..." says it all, really. This is *literally the definition of ad hominem*; the statement couldn't be more wrong. And it completely describes the author's worldview.
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