• Dangdoggo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This doesn’t sound like a mansplain scenario to me, I think the guy was just happy to talk running (and also might not exist). So if a woman says they run I should say “well I’m sure you know everything there is to know about that. No need for further discussion.” ? Sounds fucking dull.

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      1 year ago

      This thread is full of mountains of projection trying to explain why it’s fine and probably great that the guy in the OP did this.

      But of course only one person involved in the whole post was actually there: the woman who made the tweet. Do you think that tweet is coming from someone who had to deal with a friendly-but-passionate dude explaining training techniques?

      Could be, but the language of her tweet suggests annoyance.

      Also your suggested response is equally obnoxious. It’s pretty simple: if she says she runs you ask more about it—“oh what kind of running do you do?”

      What you definitely do not say is “you should be doing X” without asking what kind of training they already do. Seems obvious.

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      1 year ago

      You can ask about experiences before launching into a 3-year training regimen, you know.

      • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com
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        1 year ago

        Or, you could just accept the fact that people like talking about their hobbies and stop looking for a reason to be upset over an obviously ficticious story meant to manufacture outrage.

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          1 year ago

          No, going on a long spiel is not discussing your hobbies. It’s dominating the conversation and taking it from something that apparently she brought up, to about how he could help her with his knowledge. That’s not a conversation. A conversation would be asking her about it before assuming she literally knows nothing. Have a back and forth about it. Have her talk about her experience. He can talk about his. You know. Like two normal humans instead of a non-stop running lesson no one asked for.