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[sordidamok@mastodon.social]

@angiebaby The object doesn't protest being treated like an object, unlike some women I know.

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@angiebaby

Guys!

Here is your trifecta opportunity!

Mansplain, be the reply guy AND get #blocked

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@n_dimension

I'd ... rather not have mansplaining in the thread, if that's okay.

[radundtat@berlin.social]

@angiebaby Very true. I recently saw another example that made my hair stand on end: a woman who boasted on LinkedIn about having created a personal assistant bot, given it a Swahili name and black avatar, and referred to it as "she". The woman was not black.

[noodlemaz@mstdn.games]

@JamesAshburnerCBR @angiebaby you can't mansplain to a non-human entity.

Mansplaining does not mean 'man explaining things/being condescending'
It is more specific - it includes the automatic assumption that the person said man is talking to must know less than him, that he can't possibly talk down to it (or if he does, he's right to do so).

Which is also why 'womansplaining' is a nonsense. Mansplaining exists within a framework of misogyny, where women are denied the capacity for knowledge routinely. You can't just flip it.

[rogue_cells@chaos.social]

@radundtat @angiebaby Hey, look, I'm so inclusive! My "personal assistant" who is forced to do all my bidding is a black woman! 🫣

[dolanor@hachyderm.io]

@radundtat @angiebaby WTAF

"Look Ma, I'm inclusive"

They're so racist they can't even see that everything they do is racist.

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@radundtat

So she created an artificial black servant for herself.

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@angiebaby
Similar vibes: "AI coding assistants are just like junior developers!"

[cy@fedicy.us.to]

Because surely women never ever get fooled into thinking an AI is a person.

[patrickoftheg@mastodon.social]

@cy @angiebaby What's that Big Lebowski quote? Jackie Treeehorn treats his objects like women.