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Check your interlocutor's user name and it will make more sense.
by lisper 5mo ago
Check 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.