# Sexism
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexism/725380
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexism/725380 "2015-07-17T01:47:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 5
### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexism/725380/81 "2015-07-22T13:28:55Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Mansplaining is explaining to someone who knows more about the subject than you do. If they have these “old wives’ tales” rather than actually knowing more than you do, then you are not mansplaining to them.
So…it’d be sort of like a shut-in, living in his mommy’s basement and who doesn’t have a job, friends or a life outside of internet forums trying to give life advice to…well…anyone?
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### Author:  [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2015, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexism/725380/82 "2015-07-23T08:41:42Z")
> [@BrightSunshine](#):
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> Ok. So anyone whose career has ever been hindered by sexism is just doing it wrong?
I did have problems with sexism thirty years ago, and I don’t know how much of the change I’ve seen is in the people around me, and how much is me, but I know things have changed.
I have no way to tell what’s happening with you, other than what you say, but if you run into that much sexism where you are maybe you should look for a job somewhere else. Not all companies are like yours.
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### Author:  [@CinnamonBabka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CinnamonBabka)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexism/725380/83 "2015-07-23T16:47:44Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#):
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> That will be truly handy. People will be able to see right away that you are missing the point.
Nah, it’s just that I don’t care about your point when you act like a condescending asshole.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexism/725380/84 "2015-07-24T19:20:03Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#):
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> Wait a minute, I think I have been wooshed.
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> \
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> Yeesh.
No need to worry. I didn’t actually put him on my ignore list.
> [@BigT](#):
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> There are stereotypes that apply to black women that do not apply to black people or to women.
Do they apply to women of the African-American variety of women?
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