[coolreader18]

Almost like this is something she's experienced before, and this is a preemptive attempt to stop it from happening.

Edit: for example, hn/item?id=26847629. "oh you probably have no idea how to do this, right? let me walk you through it"

[toolz]

Something anyone can do without sexist language. It's really not difficult.

[cdogl]

I don't much care for the term "mansplained", but I think it's a stretch to say it's sexist language. It's a simple colloquialism that refers to a well-known phenomenon.

[toolz]

I can't think of a single bigoted pejorative your "simple colloqualism" statement would not also apply to.

[cdogl]

Frankly I think this is a pretty good refutation of my comment.

[mlindner]

Until they added that line I didn't know the gender of the person writing the article. Explaining something to someone who looks like they don't know something has nothing to do with gender. That they associate it with gender is on their end and shows their bias.

[jhgb]

The phenomenon of fashionable buzzwords?

[bitwize]

It's not. Sexism, like racism, is prejudice + power.

[ZGDUwpqEWpUZ]

Shouldn't HN participants be better at math?

[machello13]

Can you link a dictionary definition for either of those words, please?

[omginternets]

How convenient.

[will4274]

Really funny to see stuff like this on hackers news.

Liberals arts majors appropriate mathematical language in an attempt to appropriate mathematics' reputation. Why is racism "prejudice + power" in this philosophy rather than "prejudice AND power"? It's because liberal art majors know that the lay public is more likely to believe mathematical conclusions than e.g. psychology or sociology or critical race theory conclusions. So they wrap their race theory arguments in mathematical language in order to trade on mathematics' sterling reputation for rigour and correctness.

It's always funny to see things like this on hacker news because well... There are a lot of mathematicians here. We know what "plus" actually means, and well, there's no sense in which "plus" fits.

[mlindner]

If you're being sarcastic, nice job, if not, this meme is old and needs to hurry up and cease to exist.

[jhgb]

So when you use a word, it means just what you choose it to mean, and we don't know until you tell us?

[exikyut]

OT question: do you have news.ycombinator.com DNS-mapped to `hn/`?

[coolreader18]

Nah, I just didn't think it was necessary to put the full url since it was in the same thread. Idk.

[machello13]

Do you honestly believe this is something only men do? You don’t think there’s even a chance that maybe the existence of the “mainsplaining” concept is self-reinforcing, since every instance of a man doing it will be further evidence it exists (confirmation bias), other cases will be ignored, and anyone who questions it is socially marked as incel or MRA-adjacent?

[globular-toast]

How do you know, and why do you care, about the sex of the commenter?

Also, how sad that an offer of teaching is rejected with such bitter contempt. I have absolutely relished the times in my life when someone has explained something to me. That's how I learn.

[wizzwizz4]

When you're typing, you don't have to press the Caps Lock key twice for every capital you want to type. You can simply hold the shift key to get a capital letter, instead – or get a real keyboard.

[globular-toast]

Nice try but giving me completely unrelated information out of the blue is not what is under discussion here. If you had corrected me grammar or something, I would have been thankful.

The biggest problem here is people treating others how they would be treated. That's right, the problem is people following the golden rule. People explain things because they themselves appreciate explanations. Maybe other people need to be more empathetic and understand that these explanations are coming from a good place.

[wizzwizz4]

When somebody says “please don't explain this to me again, because I know how to do it” and people explain it to them, that's clearly not following the Golden Rule.