Me: Gets PhD in animal behaviour and studies animal behaviour for 20-odd years
Random man: "I, too, have looked at an animal once in my life, I will now e-mail this woman to tell her about animal behaviour that she probably has never seen as fully and expertly I have"
That's an excellent point. "Dominant" behaviour towards women is the glaze on the cow-pie that turns the common-or-garden opinionated reply-guy into a mansplainer.
Without that attempt to dominate by virtue of his gender, he is often only a fine example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
@renordquist@academicchatter mentioned my artist Name in a conversation with someone at a conference. Dr.Dude overhead it, explained to me the function of Black history in the methaphors of my novel. Tried multiple Times to explain that i did in fast not only knew about that novel but wrote it. Dude Was shure that SchwarzRund must be a dude. Hella weird, even asked me to proof I am..me?! My face is on the author Page in the printed novel!!
@SchwarzRund@renordquist@academicchatter Please tell me you said “If you’d actually read my book, you’d know this isn’t the first time we’ve been face to face.”
A step forward was taken during the pandemic, when a large number of male immunologists, epidemiologists, and vaccinologists got a taste of what all that is like.
In my use not. Mansplaining for me is a condescending explaining of issues to people that probably have more knowledge on the topic than the mansplainer. And it's 95% men that do this, but not exclusively.
Crank for me is someone that propagates non-scientific "science" ideas.
Those cranks that I hear of are usually also mansplainers (and men, as far as I can tell), but only some mansplainers are cranks.
@erzsebel@academicchatter ...and how much of those listening skills was he using when you told him that? 😉
Have had these encounters live, of course, and somehow that feels more unconsious from the mansplainer (andnin that sense maybe harder to combat). But sitting down and writing an e-mail to a stranger feels very next-level and yet, I get a lot of these.
@hamza@erzsebel@academicchatter
I'm not completely sure. I think because there is the extra step of first pointing out what is going on and gettin the 'splainer to believe it.
@renordquist@hamza@erzsebel@academicchatter I think someone intentionally mansplaining would get defensive upon confrontation, whereas pointed out to someone unintentionally doing it would really depend on how agreeable they are. I’m trying to understand the other gender’s perspective of this. To be honest I do not notice it happen infront of me, so i’m trying to be more aware of it, or I work and hang out with really cool people that never do that :)
@hamza@erzsebel@academicchatter I think the issue for me is that you never know how agreeable someone will be upon having this pointed out. Which means thinking about how to frame, what kind of damage that might do, and weighing whether that is worth it.
It's an extra unwelcome several steps in trying to just [hand waving] live and do science [end waving]. Unless it is someone I deal with very regularly, I usually just can't be bothered to call people on it.