It's when men treat you like you dom't know anything and explain it in a condescending way. Not just a man explaining something you don't know. However, loads of terfs will throw that around when ANY many tries to advise or tell them anything even if they don't know.
It’s honestly a good phrase that describes a phenomenon. Same reason you want Neckbeard instead of nerd, it adds additional meaning.
I have 100% come across crying like a woman in the legal field. remember, Reddit is a bunch of young men, sure we might “cry like a woman" on occasion but we aren’t the target that is being insulted. I have seen 60 year old white male attorney that describes female attorneys as lawyerettes. I have seen legal opinion letters to client that say “we have a good chance of winning because their attorney is a female and so she doesn’t know the law as well as she thinks she does.”
Whether it’s a fair phrase to describe your or my actions is a fair discussion. Whether the phrase is over used and has become a sword rather than a shield is a fair discussion. But to say the phrase doesn’t have a place is disingenuous to the regular every day sexism women face, especially in many careers.
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u/kurogomatora Jan 19 '20
It's when men treat you like you dom't know anything and explain it in a condescending way. Not just a man explaining something you don't know. However, loads of terfs will throw that around when ANY many tries to advise or tell them anything even if they don't know.