I knew as soon as I saw this on my facebook feed, that a great tide was coming. The tide of ignorant entitled men who would disparage the very notion of mansplaining and try to make the conversation about them and their very important needs and problems.
The great tide of mansplination has crashed and to their credit the individuals behind Philosophy Matters has been doing and excellent job of schooling the dudes on the related comment thread.
I’m still just taken a bit aback by how, at least nominally, intelligent people do not understand such simple concept. I’m guessing that it has much to do with the (wrong) idea that the experience in society is roughly the same for everybody.
Long time readers of DWR will recognize that highlighting the differing experiences of females and males in society is something of a theme around here and here we have an example on social media illustrating that there is still so much work to be done.
Thanks internet for confirming that my dislike of humanity in general is well-founded.
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October 24, 2017 at 6:24 am
john zande
Mine, too.
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October 26, 2017 at 12:23 am
Meg
Thanks internet for confirming that my dislike of humanity in general is well-founded.
I used to think the Internet was this wonderful place where people could come together and share information and ideas and work toward the common good and people have fucked it up as always. People have lost all pretense of pretending to be decent people and are showing what monsters they really are.
I don’t know what to tell you. I mean, it’s Facebook and Facebook has always treated women like shit. People on Facebook have always enjoyed abusing women. Facebook never removes sexists posts, and they helped get Trump elected.
Secondly, philosophy always has been and always will be a male dominated field. It does not surprise me that men come out of the woodwork to punish women for sharing their voices and sticking up for themselves. That’s how men maintain domination. They shove women out then complain when women resent them for it.
But yeah overall humanity is doomed. People don’t listen. Men don’t listen, and lately I’ve been running across my fair share of other women who refuse to listen too. Nobody is safe, and nobody is worth wasting my time on anymore except for a very select few.
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