Despite the light tone in Dr. Stevance’s thread, she touched upon an important topic. Mansplaining is an issue that many professional women have to deal with in their daily lives. Bored Panda had recently spoken about this with Kim Goodwin who created this flowchart about whether something is mansplaining or not.
“Plenty of men are expert baby-burpers and diaper-wranglers, but lots of women will just assume they’re incompetent. Now imagine that happening in almost every domain of your life—and especially at work," Goodwin explained.
“The problem is the conscious or unconscious assumption that the -splainee doesn’t know something. People without societal privilege are frequent targets, which is why the behavior gets labeled mansplaining (or sometimes white-splaining, since white women often do this to women of color, too),” she said.
Goodwin also doesn’t believe that the term ‘mansplaining’ is sexist or creates double standards. “Trying to police the term is attempting to deny that communication patterns are influenced by systemic sexism or other pervasive imbalances.”
