of course it was. the entire concept and topic of mansplaining is political. It’s overtly a status move, seeking to reduce the status of men explaining to women. We can ignore whether or not this should be the case, or whether the current disequilbirium in the splainosphere towards men doing the splaining is something that deserves to be corrected, but to say that “mansplaining” carves reality at any joints but political ones seems untrue to me.
I assure you that I am fully aware that sometimes also black people steal from black people, or white people from black people, or white people from white people, etc… but that is irrelevant here, because those acts just don’t have the same qualia.
“Qualia”? Goals, motivations, and revealed preferences (that is, the things that separate “explaining” from “mansplaining” and from “splaning” in general) aren’t qualia.
of course it was. the entire concept and topic of mansplaining is political. It’s overtly a status move, seeking to reduce the status of men explaining to women. We can ignore whether or not this should be the case, or whether the current disequilbirium in the splainosphere towards men doing the splaining is something that deserves to be corrected, but to say that “mansplaining” carves reality at any joints but political ones seems untrue to me.
That’s all I was saying. For instance:
I never would have guessed that anyone could have meant that by “qualia”. I take it to mean the experiential aspect of the world.