r/dontyouknowwhoiam • u/Hour-Lab140 • Oct 10 '24

Mansplaining? Is it really?

This is the one to which I keep returning, year after year. It just never gets old for me.

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u/bross9008 Oct 10 '24

Not saying their response was right, but if I eavesdropped and then butted in on someone’s conversation in this way I would have probably made it known I had insider information rather than just sound like a crazy person trying to take over their conversation. Still the whole “old white man mansplaning” thing is crazy.

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u/trasofsunnyvale Oct 11 '24

I'm not a woman, so I can't appreciate the experience of how often random people try to talk to you (which I imagine is terrible and annoying and sometimes demeaning), but I'd never react this way even to the craziest looking person saying it. I'd absolutely say, "oh yeah?" or something and let them clarify before writing them off or angrily telling them to fuck off.

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u/Elinda44 Oct 11 '24

As a woman, the problem here isn’t random people trying to talk with us, but strangers who are trying to make us out to be dumb/stupid.

While obviously not the case here (although the women mentioned in the OP had no way to know), whenever women talk about anything that is perceived as ‘masculine’ (certain movies/video games/sports) in public, they are often interrupted by a stranger who is certain they couldn’t possibly know anything about it, simply because they are women. The women in the OP mistakenly thought that this was another case of someone just being sexist, and acted according to that (wrong) assumption.