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May. 31st, 2008 04:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sereneMen 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. :-)]
(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. :-)]
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Date: 2008-06-01 05:33 pm (UTC)Well, yes. But given this, I don't think it's a question of them not having the presence of mind to ask whether the explanation is wanted. They don't *care* whether it's wanted; *they* want to give it, to assert their "superiority", and in my experience will do so even if the person being lectured tells them that they know this stuff already.
And the blanket assumption that a woman will *not* know about whatever-it-is already is where this becomes a feminist issue, of course.
That's something I really *don't* miss about my ex-father-in-law.