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by cdogl 1884 days ago
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.
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I can't think of a single bigoted pejorative your "simple colloqualism" statement would not also apply to.
Frankly I think this is a pretty good refutation of my comment.
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.
The phenomenon of fashionable buzzwords?
It's not. Sexism, like racism, is prejudice + power.
Shouldn't HN participants be better at math?
Can you link a dictionary definition for either of those words, please?
How convenient.
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.

If you're being sarcastic, nice job, if not, this meme is old and needs to hurry up and cease to exist.
So when you use a word, it means just what you choose it to mean, and we don't know until you tell us?