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You’re making this about a lot more than my comment.
by Esophagus4 5mo ago
You’re making this about a lot more than my comment.
- lisper 5mo agoCheck your interlocutor's user name and it will make more sense.
- happytoexplain 5mo agoI had picked that name just wanting a polite, harmless phrase - and then I realized it could have a negative connotation of being a know-it-all (I'm probably in the bottom 5% of "knowing things" among HN users), exacerbated by the rise of complaints about "mansplaining". Oh well.
- TrnsltLife 5mo ago"mansplaining" is an attack by toxic femininity on the normative state of affairs that men like talking about facts and the physical world and how things work. It's just another instance of womanplaining (from "complaining") and name calling, really, and "oh well" is probably a pretty good response. Just thinking about it some more, maybe "womplaining" is pithier and has a better ring to it.
- happytoexplain 5mo agoYes, I'm commenting on a trend that I believed your comment was a part of based on your implications (implying something like "maybe you don't deserve what you've been getting"; and downplaying the impact of loss of income). Sorry if I'm wrong.