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[serene]

Men who explain things.

(I allow men to explain things to me that I already understand, far too often. They should stop it, and I should stop allowing it.)

[Edit: To those men who are explaining linux text editors to me, I didn't mean you. I *don't* understand this, and I appreciate the help. It's coincidence that I ran across this article at this time. :-)]

Comments

[amythis.livejournal.com]

This is a good article, but I agree with a couple commenters that some women do this to other women, too. Because I don't present myself as INTELLIGENT (in an aggressive or even assertive way), "strong-minded" women like to condescend to me, even on topics like literature and history, where I know a great deal more than they do.

I think I tune it out more when men do it, because I grew up with a father who thought he was a genius and wasn't, but he never cared if I was actually listening.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

My father would, if shown where he was wrong in an encyclopedia or textbook, talk about "ivory-tower academics who don't know anything about the Real World." So yeah, I get ya here.