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[nonethefewer]

Yall.  YALL.

MANSPLAINING.

This might be some of why I have to word everything Super Carefully in order to get answers to the questions I ask.

"I search in Yelp for fast food, and it turns up a jewelery store.  Why?"

"Did you know you could click the Fast Food box in the search options box?  That might help."

"No, no, I was completely unaware of what was staring me in the face.  Thank you!  I was asking about why it would think a jewelery store was anything like a fast food store, but clearly it's not that Yelp is occasionally full of bees, it's that my eyes are somehow broken."

(Total hypothetical.)

I am in a seriously cranktacular mood this morning.

Comments

[mcsnee.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the other side to this is that people really do ask stupid questions all the time (as you know), and an initial question like that can weed out the stupid.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

I come off as people??

I am now thoroughly horrified.

[rosefox]

Did you see Justine Larbalestier's post on it? It was great, and then a bunch of men showed up to mansplain why she was totally wrong and there was no such thing.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

To be fair, sometimes what comes off as mansplaining is actually that person being a condescending prick to everyone, not just women. This is more obvious if the person they're being a prick to isn't a woman, or if the person being a prick isn't a man.

On the other hand, this term perfectly describes an incident a few weeks ago where a student tried to explain something to me. You'd think me being his prof would've forestalled that bit of mansplation, but no.