Woman Shares A "Mansplaining" Story As A Great Example How Men Should Behave
For those of you who are not familiar with this term, mansplaining is used to describe the situation in which a man is talking down to a woman while explaining something; he assumes that a woman knows nothing about it. This is extremely irritating, even from a man’s point of view. To be honest, they do not just prey on women – “Mansplainers” often try to talk with men like that, but back down in most cases after a short period, unless they see a man in front of them is willing to put up with their sh.t.
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Mansplaining has different levels of annoyingness, and the worst is probably when a woman has to put up with a man explaining something from her area of expertise. At the same time, he is an absolute layman in that field and knows about the subject only superficially.
Hilary Jerome Scarsella is a Ph.D. candidate in Theological Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her work concentrates on the connection between traumatic experience to religious belief and liberation theology. She shared her airport mansplaining experience on Facebook:
She has been nicer than most people would be, and listened to the man carefully and respectfully, made some remarks about his points. Still, he is not interested in a productive conversation – he just wants to say what he wants and leave. In most cases, the story would end like that.
Her new pal pointed out this man’s blunder, and that it was too late for him to fix it. He had a great opportunity -a subject matter authority right in front of him, but he didn’t want to listen and learn. Instead, he just spewed out his beliefs and thoughts. He didn’t ask a single question.
When her new friend spoke up, he created a safe space, but he is not a savior - he was just doing what every decent man should do when they see racism and sexism in the act.