>Do you have a better word for that behavior? That's just people on the internet, my friend. Is it mansplaining when men do it to each other or is it only if

>Do you have a better word for that behavior? That's just people on the internet, my friend. Is it mansplaining when men do it to each other or is it only if it happens to be a receiving woman? And do we call it womansplaining in the reverse direction? Do we pause the discussion until we know the genders involved so that we can use the correct word? Is it always about gender if someone responds to us in a less charitable way on the internet? Or should everyone just make more charitable interpretations of each other's posts online? Also, if socially charged topics are supposed to be ignored when embedded in another topic, what other topics are off the table? Can you say anything you want as long as it's tucked away in a small enough footnote? Or do we only walk on egg shells around topics regarding women? Is that the path towards equality in tech -- to only address topics that concern men? If we have a responsibility to stand up when women are being attacked, then I think we have a responsibility to stand up when people dilute the issues that women face, like pulling the gender card when it happens to be a woman that receives the same sort of banter that we all have to deal with and ignore on the internet. >It wasn’t an offhand quip like your gun control example, it directly related to the tweet she was talking about. BTW the author is, as far as I can tell, a man: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/about/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/about/. He linked to the tweet and annotated it with the word that ignited this comment thread. The contention here is that many of us disagree.