[eganist]

> No, it's silly to assume that your experiences are the only experiences that exist.

It's impolite to mansplain. Tracyshaun was course-correcting the following generalization:

> Women have been putting them in purses instead of pants pockets for a long time. Pockets usually aren't even an option for womens' clothing.

It's doubly impolite to put words in someone's mouth, such as stating that someone is assuming their own experiences are the only ones that matter ("your experiences are the only experiences that exist" -- not something Tracyshaun said or even implied). When read appropriately, Tracyshaun's comment reads as disputing a generalization with Tracyshaun's own personal experiences and those of friends.

We can make HN an even better place to comment by correcting such generalizations the way Tracyshaun did and not mansplaining people for re-baselining our expectations.