PSA: If someone is posting about behavior being exhausting to the point that they are considering leaving a platform, then doing more of it "as a joke" is neither supportive nor helpful.

PSA: If someone is posting about behavior being exhausting to the point that they are considering leaving a platform, then doing more of it "as a joke" is neither supportive nor helpful. And also not funny.

(This is re *two separate accounts* making a joke about mansplaining mansplaining to me on a post where I had already been mansplained about how to handle mansplaining.)

PSA: If someone is posting about behavior being exhausting to the point that they are considering leaving a platform, then doing more of it "as a joke" is neither supportive nor helpful. And also not funny.

(This is re *two separate accounts* making a joke about mansplaining mansplaining to me on a post where I had already been mansplained about how to handle mansplaining.)

@emilymbender
While you're sticking around here,
I'll follow your womansplaining AI and linguistics.

Here's looking at you, kid
… and hoping the SNDR is worth the effort.
#HaHaOnlySerious
https://web.archive.org/web/20071023055022/http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html

@emilymbender

From this I take it you have already had everything properly mansplained to you and I have no role here?

ETA: Yes, this joke is somewhat tonedeaf. But like any self-deprecating comic I couldn't resist it.

@christophmaier please don't use this word.
It's a nonsense.

Mansplaining is the phenomenon of men *who assume their target audience knows less than them regardless of available evidence* explaining shit when they weren't asked to, to people who do often know more than them about that thing.

There is no counterexample. Because men's knowledge is not routinely underestimated, because this is a misogynistic society problem and systemic misandry is not a thing.

It completely misunderstands/ignores what 'mansplaining' is as a problem.

@noodlemaz
Out of your ideological zeal,
you completely deny and cancel my experience growing up in the gaslight of a toxic narcissitic mother
who used social manipulation with the help of a social clique of like-minded manipulative narcissistic mothers to create a socially constructed reality in which subtle, passive-aggressive misandry was (in fact, still is) very much a thing and my very existence was an aberration.

You're trying to lecture me about stuff
you don't know shit about,
and
you don't want to know shit about¹²⁷,
because the knowledge goes against your Socially Constructed Reality.

Hence, you ARE the counterexample.

You can do better
(they don't hand out PhDs in actual science, like
Medicine and Physiology,
like candy for reciting ideological slogans),
but you CHOOSE not to.

¹²⁷ Theodor W. Adorno, Minima moralia,
127. Wishful Thinking

@christophmaier @noodlemaz you're gross.