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• moakley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sometimes people are being sexist. Mansplaining is a real thing that happens. You may not see the need for the word because you personally don’t need it, but maybe you can understand that there a lot of people who do need it?

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  • NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean sure, but you can’t deny it’s misused sometimes. I never said it didn’t happen at all. Stop reading what I didn’t write.

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    • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, it’s misused sometimes. And it sounds like you agree that sometimes it’s the right word for the situation.

      If a man inaccurately and smugly trying to correct a female astronaut, punctuating it with “Simple thermo”, isn’t the right time to use “mansplaining”, then when would be?

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• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure. But it gives the appearance if sexism. Who gives a fuck if he is being an asshole if you mislabeled the kind of asshole he is.

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  • Gustephan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You kinda should. The entire value of shaming people is to show a person that somebody else or a group of somebody elses do not approve of their behaviour. If you dont care about being accurate in calling out antisocial behaviour, how do you think the person expressing said antisocial behaviour will understand that interaction? Do you think they’ll be able to understand what they did wrong? Obviously thats not always relevant, some people just want to mudwrestle and they’ll never hear you no matter what you say. It’s worth it to be accurate in case they are the type of person who might remotely consider your words though

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you dont care about being accurate in calling out antisocial behaviour, how do you think the person expressing said antisocial behaviour will understand that interaction?

      If they were being sexist and you don’t point that put, wouldn’t that be inaccurate?

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      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        it would be incomplete, not inaccurate.
        it is much better to be incomplete than inaccurate.

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      • Gustephan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes, it would. It’s also not related to the comment I replied to, in which you stated that you dont care about being accurate when calling somebody out. My point is that you should care about accuracy when youre calling out bad behaviour, I’m not trying to defend Mr “actually it would be spontaneous” from the image

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