Chronicling the ongoing intersectional struggle to liberate women — inclusively defined as the legacy kind and the transgenders — from The Patriarchy™, one microaggression at a time.
‘56% Of Women Say They Have Experienced ‘Mansplaining’ At Work’, mansplains Forbes reporter
Intrepid Forbes correspondent Dr. Bryan Robinson, Ph.D. — by all appearances a man, if we’re assuming gender — mansplains that over half of all women have been mansplained to at work.
Via Forbes (emphasis added):
Unwritten workplace rules cause miscommunication and disconnection. One example is “hey-hanging,” and another one is “mansplaining”—when a woman is condescended to by a man via explanation. No matter how trivial it may seem, communicating condescendingly shows how much or little we value those we speak with…
Jeffbet conducted a survey of over 2,000 women across the U.S. about the mansplaining they regularly encounter, how often and where they encounter it, which topics men mansplain the most and their experiences dating and working with mansplainers. Key findings include the following:
56% of women have experienced mansplaining at work.
The worst cities for workplace mansplainers are Portland, Oregon, Kansas City, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana.
This is a perfect microcosm of the problem with social sciences, which is one of definitions. “Mansplaining” means whatever the women surveyed want it to mean, which is usually anything they hear from a man that they don’t like.
I went to the source material to look at the methodology, and it was about as detailed as you would expect.
Via JeffBet:
We surveyed 2,030 American women from October 15 to 21, 2024, about the mansplaining they regularly encounter, including the frequency of mansplaining, the number of topics, and experiences with mansplainers in dating, work, and the respondent’s location. We analyzed responses from 40 of 50 states; 10 states were excluded from the state-by-state analysis due to low sample size. We analyzed responses from 23 of 49 cities surveyed; 26 cities were excluded from the city analysis due to low sample size.
Now, obviously, this is low-tier clickbait to get people onto a gambling site.
But the thing is that you can bet your bottom dollar some Women’s and Gender Studies graduate student is going to quote this in her thesis if she hasn’t already. And then she’s going to graduate with an advanced degree. And then she’s going to work at Starbucks. And then she’s going to cry about The Patriarchy™ because she can’t get a six-figure job she feels entitled to after her grueling program spent citing statistics from gambling websites about mansplaining.
Future baristas of America, tell me your major in college!? pic.twitter.com/rUeZoJWokM
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 2, 2025
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Meta users now liberated to refer to women as ‘household objects’
I have no idea what happens on Facebook or whatever it’s going to be called tomorrow since my account was permanently suspended in 2021 for saying true things about COVID that Mark Zuckerberg didn’t approve of.
So I rely on CNN to tell me.
In a bid to allegedly restore free speech and sell beachfront resorts in Albuquerque, human-lizard hybrid Mark has allowed users to once again refer to women as “household objects” and even, surprisingly, transgenders as “it.”
Via CNN (emphasis added):
Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking. But the company also quietly updated its hateful conduct policy, adding new types of content users can post on the platform, effective immediately.
Users are now allowed to, for example, refer to “women as household objects or property” or “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” according to a section of the policy prohibiting such speech that was crossed out. A new section of the policy notes Meta will allow “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality.
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The shrews at The Guardian are none too pleased with some semblance of free speech restored on the platform.
Meanwhile, across the world… a slightly more draconian iteration of The Patriarchy™ rages with impunity
The United States spent nearly two decades nominally fighting for Afghan women to become kick-ass CEOs and engineers or whatever.
Afghanistan, we were assured, was going to turn into a liberal paradise any day, which is why we had to waste trillions of dollars modernizing it.
Twenty years later, those women are locked in compounds, and all the windows that might provide a view into their lives are shuttered by order of the Taliban.
Via Independent UK (emphasis added):
The Taliban have banned windows in residential buildings to stop women from being seen while they are at home in Afghanistan.
Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, ordered that buildings should not have windows looking into places where a woman could be sitting or standing.
The order applies to both new buildings and existing ones, according to a four-clause decree posted on social media site X (formerly Twitter) late on Saturday.
The decree, posted by government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid on X, states that new buildings should not have windows where you can see “the courtyard, kitchen, neighbour’s well and other places usually used by women”, AFP reports.
“Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts.”
Foreign NGOs are also being shut out of the country in the new year because the women they employ don’t wear their empowering trash bag right.
Via CNN (emphasis added):
The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021.
The announcement comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.
In a letter published on X Sunday night, the Economy Ministry warned that failure to comply with the latest order would lead to NGOs losing their license to operate in Afghanistan.
The United Nations said the space for women in Afghanistan has shrunk dramatically in the last two years and reiterated its call for the Taliban to reverse the restrictions.
“This really impacts how we can provide life saving humanitarian assistance to all the people in Afghanistan,” UN associate spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez said. “And obviously we are very concerned by the fact that we are talking about a country where half the population’s rights are being denied and are living in poverty, and many of them, not just women, are facing a humanitarian crisis.”
Isn’t it ironic that liberals are all for “cultural sovereignty” or whatever the current phrase is (which is just code for “shut your bigot hole, whitey”) — until it comes to them wanting to insert their multinational NGOs into foreign lands for social engineering? Then it’s all “muh international human rights,” all the time.
It’s almost like they have no principles at all.
