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BOOM! MANSPLAINED!

by jnevill 14y ago

BOOM! MANSPLAINED!

lutusp 14y ago
I hope you're kidding. Describing an explanation as a mansplanation can only isolate women. I hope you recognize that there is often no meaningful distinction between solidarity and isolation.
- djcapelis 14y ago
  Did you want to maybe let women express what isolates us instead of declaring what will and won't lead to our isolation?
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  - lutusp 14y ago
    > Did you want to maybe let women express what isolates us ... If you had done that, I wouldn't have replied. "Mansplained" explains nothing, it only argues for a nonexistent distinction between men and women, like the oppressive idea that women think about the world differently, process reality differently, do math and science differently, than men do. There has never been a more pointlessly divisive idea among the feminist ranks than the idea that there is a uniquely female way to think about the world. It's false and it undermines women -- it encourages sympathy for an idea that oppresses women. "Mansplained" is just a code word for "ignore him -- he's a man, i.e. the enemy." > ... instead of declaring what will and won't lead to our isolation? At present, in a country where women's rights are guaranteed by law, what isolates women more than anything else are those women who dismiss arguments as being either male or female. Truth has no gender.
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      - lutusp 14y ago
        > What is gender if it isn't a way to think about the world? The answer is obvious -- it's a way to very reliably misinterpret everyday reality. In the same way that to a hammer everything is a nail, to a gender theorist everything is a gender issue. As long as black, brown and red people are thought of as something other than people, we have a serious race issue. In the same way, as long as men and women are thought of as something other than people, we have a serious gender issue. Do you think that race is a constructive way to think about the world? No? Then why would gender be?

BOOM! MANSPLAINED!

by jnevill 14y ago

BOOM! MANSPLAINED!

I hope you're kidding. Describing an explanation as a mansplanation can only isolate women. I hope you recognize that there is often no meaningful distinction between solidarity and isolation.

djcapelis 14y ago
Did you want to maybe let women express what isolates us instead of declaring what will and won't lead to our isolation?
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- lutusp 14y ago
  > Did you want to maybe let women express what isolates us ... If you had done that, I wouldn't have replied. "Mansplained" explains nothing, it only argues for a nonexistent distinction between men and women, like the oppressive idea that women think about the world differently, process reality differently, do math and science differently, than men do. There has never been a more pointlessly divisive idea among the feminist ranks than the idea that there is a uniquely female way to think about the world. It's false and it undermines women -- it encourages sympathy for an idea that oppresses women. "Mansplained" is just a code word for "ignore him -- he's a man, i.e. the enemy." > ... instead of declaring what will and won't lead to our isolation? At present, in a country where women's rights are guaranteed by law, what isolates women more than anything else are those women who dismiss arguments as being either male or female. Truth has no gender.
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    - lutusp 14y ago
      > What is gender if it isn't a way to think about the world? The answer is obvious -- it's a way to very reliably misinterpret everyday reality. In the same way that to a hammer everything is a nail, to a gender theorist everything is a gender issue. As long as black, brown and red people are thought of as something other than people, we have a serious race issue. In the same way, as long as men and women are thought of as something other than people, we have a serious gender issue. Do you think that race is a constructive way to think about the world? No? Then why would gender be?