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Oh boy. I have Thoughts about this. Third layer: it's hilarious because he's enlightened and self-aware enough to know it's a trap.

Fourth and best layer: but he still can't envision this conversation outside of declarative statements. The answer to break the stalemate is so obviously along the lines of "my understanding of mansplaining is X, but I'd love to know more about yours," thereby conveying familiarity with the subject while inviting the possibility of error and validating the probable lived experience of the questioner. Easy. More people who have been socialized as women could do it. Bonus points for daring to ask why it came up in that conversation, in a nonthreatening way.

But he's not there yet (within the joke anyway)--and that perfectly illustrates the trap of being partway on the journey toward liberatory transformation: the person who knows enough about power and identity to know what not to do, but hasn't yet liberated himself from old mental models & learned styles of communication that don't involve dominating or being dominated.

😂

It all makes sense now

this is how angst writers look writing the most emotionally damaging shit you've seen in your life