Mansplaining?

Hey Feminists! Guess what? Chivarly is dead.  You killed it.

The man doesn't have to be faster than a crocodile. He just has to be faster than his girlfriend.

From The New York Post:

Boyfriend leaves girlfriend to deal with crocodile in resort pool 

New York Post By Sophia Rosenbaum November 3, 2016 

A relaxing night at an African resort took a terrifying turn when a crocodile took a dive into the pool and attacked two swimmers.

Heart-stopping surveillance footage obtained by CCTV shows the couple splashing around the pool in Kariba, Zimbabwe, last Thursday when the croc hopped into the water — heading straight towards the couple.

The man quickly escaped, causing the carnivorous crocodile to turn its snout on the woman.

She is cornered by the big-toothed reptile, but escapes mostly unscathed, save for a few scrapes.

The crocodile, meanwhile, remains soaking in the pool.

Liberal women accuse liberal men of not getting it

"For what it’s worth, I don’t think Sanders was being sexist when he said that “all the shouting in the world” wouldn’t address gun violence, for the reasons my colleague William Saletan has pointed out. But the comments that Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, made to Bloomberg’s John Heilemann were different. “We’re willing to consider her for vice president. We’ll give her serious consideration. We’ll even interview her,” Weaver said with a grin. The condescension was palpable.

One needn’t be a gender studies major at Oberlin, however, to realize that the meanings of words can shift according to the identities of the speaker and the subject; it’s why Joe Biden’s comment about Obama being “articulate” was widely seen as subtly racist. A lot of women had a visceral reaction to Weaver’s words not because they’re trying to gin up outrage—though there was some of that—but because patronizing men have been minimizing their qualifications and offering them subsidiary positions for their entire lives.

Of course, people of good faith are going to disagree about individual examples of sexism. What’s immensely frustrating, however, is to realize how many ostensibly enlightened men think that gender can ever be totally disaggregated from Clinton’s efforts to become the first female president. They seem to believe that their class politics exempt them from taking sexism seriously. They certainly don’t care about female leadership.

I guess this shouldn’t come as a surprise; as long as feminism has existed, left-wing men have dismissed it as a bourgeois triviality. Now we know how little things have changed. For that, at least, we can thank these men for educating us."

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/11/hillary_clinton_bernie_sanders_sexist_coverage_some_men_want_to_mansplain.single.html

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Amusingly, the word mansplain appears in the link, but not in the body of the article.

The reasonableness of dictatorship

Link to video

Judge Napolitano Mansplaining

What blog is hot now: 'My Husband Stupid Record Collection'

"Where I listen to my husband's record collection, one record at a time, and tell you what I think."

I came across the blog "My Husband Stupid Record Collection" via Jesabel's Tracy Moore observation/diatribe (depending on your point of view) that, among other things, she, Tracy, finds it sexist? perhaps? that a woman outsider writing about music... I tell you what, why don't I just copy and paste what she is saying and let you figure out if she makes a good point or not.

A woman named Sarah O'Holla has a tumblr devoted to going through her husband's record collection, reviewing every single album to get to know more about it (and him). She's not a music critic; she's a librarian who waxes earnest/sarcastic about the records while her dude, husband Alex Goldman, who owns 1,500 LPs, offers context. I am not shocked that she's reviewing 1,500 records; I'm in awe that dudes aren't giving her a bunch of terrible shit for it. In fact, many are actually into it.

For the record (har), I, a woman, am way into it, premise-wise. It's cool to show an interest in things the person you love loves, and also, because records... 

But as someone who also wrote about music professionally while female, I can't help but notice the jaw-dropping difference in response to a woman who sits down to riff on music as an admitted outsider being greeted with an enthusiastic thumbs-up by dudes, VERSUS being a woman who sits down to riff on music as an insider and being greeted with a shit-fuck-ton of vitriol by dudes. The latter experience would be mine...

Here, I'm skipping over the part where Tracy cites some of the glowing? praise "My Husband Stupid Record Collection" is getting. NPR & Slate. (question mark after glowing because I'm guessing is glowing, I'm not reading it) Back to Tracy...

... but nobody loves to tell you all the fuck about music like a dude with a bunch of records, trust. So O'Holla may not have gotten direct shit, but in a way, she got shit for not getting shit if that makes sense. Because what O'Holla is doing fits really perfectly into a very traditional notion about how men impart knowledge to women, especially music. That is, we are cool with dudes teaching women things and we love when they are eager students. We are less cool when women are doing the knowledge-dropping with anything like authority. This is not her individual fault or anything for wanting to review some records, but the response is useful and emblematic.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that "how-men-impart-knowledge-to-women" what Althouse calls "mansplaining"? I haven't checked, hence, the cover of this post.

Jesabel