An underrated dynamic in the gender wars is that not all conversational tactics are open to everybody. In particular, tactics men constantly use on each other, and laugh off, are seen as crushingly emasculating and humiliating when used by women on men.
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As I was arguing with Sonya, I think that’s rational. If you’re the only female engineer in a team of 50, then any imputed ignorance is much more dangerous for you since the 49 men will draw dumb n=1 conclusions etc. In a majority-women context, the mansplainer would look silly.
women facepalm six times as hard when a woman says something dumb than when a man does but I think it’s not just percentages
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There’s a law of large numbers here. When you’re part of a small sample, you’re far more on guard with yourself and others in the small sample, since the marginal reputation all damage to all from the actions of one are high. Large sample = statistical security.
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hahaha last bit is a nice compression
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like even in gender representative environments like twitter female gender seems to impute to you more than male gender
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It’s a minority representation effect. I experienced that with other fob Indians saying dumb, parochial shit. Took me a while to fire myself from the job of representing “Indian”. Like a semester. Interestingly power gradients matter. Americans abroad dont mind looking stupid.
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