Mansplaining example:
Most of the items I repost come from women (mainly Black women). And if you've ever received my generic, 'Thanks, so and so. Reposting.' or seen 'From so and so's post.' in my comment area, that's who I mean.
But when I do it, I get 'likes' and 'shares' and accolades saying, 'Ooh, how perceptive! I NEVER saw it that way before!'
While many originators get silence, the b word, the c word and EVEN the N word along with threats to their person and their practice or business!
And many of them are professors, doctors, successful entrepreneurs and the like! But let them speak up and it's, 'Who are you?!?' and 'I question your credentials!'
While I have zero credentials and have never received any bile beyond, 'You're overreacting' or 'What you said was hateful!'
Oh, you wounded me! (Actually, they did wound me because I am human and they did hurt my feelings. #Blackfeelingsmatter).
So imagine how up in my feelings I would be if they treated me like a Black woman? In a dozen years on FB, I've never unfriended and post that I don't unfriend
and yet EVERY ONE of you has complied to the no cursing request on my page. EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.OF.YOU.WITHOUT. EXCEPTION.HAS.GIVEN.ME.THAT.RESPECT!
But we're still in denial about misogynoir conditioning being a thing, though. And I could go on and on about how the most dangerous place for a woman is in the home, etc. but you get the point.
Misogynoir conditioning and Mansplaining is killing US!
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