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by oihssovhusvoh 3132 days ago
the cartoon depicts an incompetent woman scientist being talked-down to by an arrogant dick! It has the form:

woman: "<erroneously> science says X"

man : "<correcting her> actually the truth is Y"

The jerk also talks-down to us the audience. It's terrible science-education and it's not "humor"

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Would it be any better if the genders of the actors were reversed?

"mansplain" is a gender-biased criticism of behavior. It implies that the gender of the participants is the problem, rather than the attitudes or behavior.

But apparently the mice in the study react to the gender, so maybe it's germane...

everyone know's it's men who do it so don't pretend it's a reversible situation
Sorry, I mistook you for someone attempting to add value to the conversation.