Also (unrelated to mansplaining at all) I have a new person I am assisting at work, who happens to be a man. They are trying to decide about hiring someone, and so I am working with him to do a needs assessment in terms of a) level of person and b) how many hours they need.
For MONTHS he has given me barely anything to do, but in the past few days, I have been deluged with pretty long term projects.
I just looked at his calendar, and his touch base meeting with our dean is in 2 hours! I think he needs to report his progress and will be reporting as "delegated to Sophia".
My primary boss and I do the dean touch base meeting together as a team and each report on our own stuff most of the time, so this has never happened before.
I just realized that I've been mansplained to during sex.
Me: Gentle. Gentle. That's not gentle!!
Him: I know.
Oh, man, this Jezebel post really nails it:
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"The fucks are on backorder." Indeed.
Author just wrote me from his gmail account: sexyboyb@... That's taken my appreciation of your professionalism to a whole new high, Professor.
Author just wrote me from his gmail account: sexyboyb@...
Ahahahaha. Your job wins today.
I used to love biscuits and gravy, but have not eaten it in years.
Worst mansplanations I get involve disability discrimination/bias. Because I think many white guys(probably not anyone here) get their view of such things from, like, civil rights footage in Alabama in 1955. So they are imagining angry, contorted, AB faces yelling out "cripple, go home!"
Which, in my generation at least, has never happened quite that way.(And, most importantly, they know they are Not That Guy, so, there are what? 5 of those, and they will get old and die, and there;s that law anyway, so pretty soon? No more problem. And don't you think your attitude contributed? If you go in expecting the worst...etc. etc.
Author just wrote me from his gmail account: sexyboyb@...
When I worked at a high school program at my university, one of the young men wrote to me from "leothelionman6969@...."
And then, of course when he came in he was a cute little nerdy boy-- but hardly leo the lionman 6969.
And don't you think your attitude contributed?
Yet another variation of victim-blaming. Hate it.
I think sexyboyb is worse than leothelionman, but not sure if the 6969 part makes it worse...
So, I don't normally read the comments, but loved this from a commenter on Jezebel:
are we seriously allowing men who think women have magical uteri to make life-altering laws on our reproductive systems?! That's like allowing children to make laws about dentistry based on their understanding of how the tooth fairy collects teeth for a living
So, I don't normally read the comments, but loved this from a commenter on Jezebel:
I wish I could even figure out how to read the comments on Jezebel now. I saw 3. Literally, 3 comments.
