Tweetsplaining: Um, Ladies, Maybe It's Not Actually About Your Having A Vagina And All?
In today's Twitter butthurt, we have this gem:

Now, of all the things you could assume motivated the guy, well, could it be possible he just wanted to riff on that in the way he enjoys? The reality is, if you say anything about bacon on Twitter, five people will retweet or respond -- typically out of what I call baconjoy.

Back to the reaction to his doing that, the way I see it, it's women who feel less than men who always assume men see them as "less than."

Oh, and I have to say, I loved her bacon/curling/broom joke.

On a related note, I wrote about so-called "mansplaining" in a post titled:

"Mansplaining" -- A Made-Up Social Crime That Helps Feminists Demand That Women Be Treated As Eggshells, Not Equals

A bit from that post:

Some guy in a bar will tell me about something I know -- maybe even something I know really, really well.

...Because I don't go out into the world trained to be a victim, I don't see every interaction through a victim's eyes. I also don't think everything is about me. So I see people's blowhard-y comments for what they are: those of human beings who want to seem interesting and are using whatever information they can to do that.

So, after somebody tells me what they know, I'll say, "Yeah, I've read that" or something like that, and tell them more about the topic. It's called "Having a conversation," and I really enjoy it.

And frankly, nobody's going to push me around conversationally. And that's why I think the notion of "mansplaining" as some social crime against women, is just ridiculous.

An evolutionary psychologist I respect thinks similarly, and took it a step further. Diana Fleischman (see her research here) -- tweeted this:

There's already a word for mansplaining. It's called being patronizing. And I'm as good at it as any man.

— Diana S. Fleischman (@sentientist) October 1, 2016

As for where the other kind of thinking -- women as perpetual victims -- might come from and where it seems to lead, there's this comment from Ben on yesterday's post, where I observed, "Maybe I'm wrong that younger women are more likely to take offense, but it seems that way."

Ben writes:

You are correct about the younger women being more into this sort of thing. Why? Because that is what our schools teach.

My sister does this all the time. All the way from kindergarten to graduate school she was taught that as a woman she was being discriminated against.

The reality is that as a woman she was far less discriminated against than any man. At least due to gender.

After almost 20 years of getting that clap trap pounded into her brain it is in there pretty permanently.

We don't really talk much because almost any conversation over 5 minutes turns into a diatribe about how horrible of a human being I am and how evil the entire male gender is.

She wants to have a closer relationship with me but I see no reason to take that kind of abuse just to make her happy.