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Hmm, in specific cases it may be an overreaction, but as a default, especially for women in STEM, it is unfortunately often a justified defense mechanism. Men mansplain to everybody, and not always as a power move, but other men usually have subtle responses that women can’t use.
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I think that people like to participate and share their own knowledge. When I (a woman) chime in with a factoid, it isn't always that I'm assuming the person doesn't know. I'm chiming in! My dream reaction would be that they say, "Yes, and" and expand on it.
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I agree this is usually the right reading of motive when a woman does it. With men... maybe I’m jaded but I’ve been in too many corporate meetings where 75% of the things guys say in the guise of info-sharing is some tediously inept and transparent power move/oneupmanship.
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Perhaps that is true in your communities! All I know is that I get along swimmingly with the men at work *because* they share my let's-share-facts-at-each-other conversation style, and if someone else were to assume they were mansplaining I would be offended on their behalf.
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