Pocket sand!

👃👆

Being aphantasic, I admire their imaginations.

I just have to sit here in reality and take it.

Shhhh. They’re all around us.

Change the name to Redskein Islanders.

So taking up unnecessary public space is something particular to men? Do all men do this, or just only men?

Or are we gendering bad behavior to win internet points?

Oh no how unfortunate.

But … it does? If you’re tall, your arms and legs are longer, so they stick out further. As I found out on an 11 hour flight where the people to my left and right decided they both needed both arm rests, it’s painful to sit with your knees and elbows touching each other.

Wrapping my arm around a seatback would have been a godsend.

You know men tend to be larger than women?

I had a live-in partner complain that all the clothes in the laundry basket were mine, implying she was doing most of the laundry. I looked. We wore the same amount of clothes, mine were just bigger, taking a larger volume.

I genuinely don’t understand what difference it makes. She began to explain, implying she hadn’t said she was the author of the book he had locked and loaded. He cut her off. This could either be excitement on the topic they both had interest in or a slightly rude faux pas.

If she said “yep, heard of that book — I wrote it” and he said “you can’t be the author — you’re a woman” the misogyny would be obvious.

The fact that one person cut another off in one conversation doesn’t mean every time a man opens his mouth he’s “mansplaining”. Or maybe it does, since the definition seems to mean whatever the speaker wishes it to be. Bringing me back to my first post.

Is this a prerequisite for isFalse()?

They could fix the big crease in the folding screen.

Freeing the shit out of those hostages.

Please stop talking about Jeff — I mean Epstein. 🥺

Asking someone to explain something is none of those things.

It does seem to be a way to shut men down without making any kind of point. Look at some of the responses in this thread.

Another “emotional invalidation” or “NPD” or “weaponized incompetence.”

Asking someone to explain mansplaining is mansplaining. Got it.

“Doesn’t know something basic and fundamental”?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining

asked if she had “heard about the very important Muybridge book that came out this year”—not considering that it might be (as, in fact, it was) Solnit’s book

He didn’t know she was the author. I mean, that’s a pretty simple mistake to make. I wouldn’t assume someone I’m casually speaking to at a party is the author of the particular book on the particular subject we are chatting about. What are the odds?

But somehow this is extrapolated to any time any man monologues. And implicitly that only men do this, and only to women. Let me blow your mind: sometimes men bloviate to other men. And sometimes women do this to men.