Once I was working at the conference with my colleague. He is more talkative and better with clients whilst I'm better in understanding and explayning our software features and advantages (I'm involved in work with development department though stationed in sales). So we work perfectly as a team. The client came to me and asked about whether he can speak with a manager about our software and I said yes, he is lucky to speak with the manager right now. He made a grimase and asked for "a real manager". My colleague step up, listened for his question then said "And now I'm going to ask an expert", he turned to me, repeated the question and paicienlty listened to the answer. This client gone literally redfaced and wanished quikly after that. I was so grateful for my collegue's help. It's not simple for women to work in the IT sphere.

I'm not getting how this is sexist, maybe it's just the way I'm reading it and picturing it in my head but it reads like she was simply debating with some guy, whose views were based on his spiritual beliefs, now I don't agree with any of his batshit theories about energy but people who hold spiritual beliefs don't tend to drop them because they meet an expert in that field, someone that studies Physical Cosmology likely will still find him/herself debating theologists about the world being made in 7 days.

I really hate this "everything happens for a reason" rhetoric. although i don't believe in god ,if i did and god was really doing all of this then i would be questioning god's mental state and probably rethinking worshipping him

well this is AWESOME!

My ex used to think (very strongly) that all women who get raped secretly have rape fantasy and universe fulfills them. 🙄

Absolutely “mansplaining” is a social phenomenon. Some men have a nurtured sense of their own right to pontificate and pronounce and they find fertile ground with women. It’s no coincidence that most people in the talking & teaching professions like pastors, lawyers, journalists, commentators, pundits, critics, politicians, lecturers, psychiatrists, non-fiction writers are men. Nor that men invented male all-knowing Gods. Nor that in many places men prevent women from equally competing with them for powerful positions. And the man in the story suffers from the tendency too. However, its my observation that people who believe bad things happen for a reason are people who’ve had bad things happen to them, and it sounds to me that he was unwilling to debate it because it would upset his hard-won equilibrium. Not everyone you talk to in an airport is looking for a debate or to have their ideas corrected.

Mansplaining is a horrible word that doesn't even exist, assigning a gender to a negative action. She didn't experience "Mansplaining" she experienced ignorance. If you use the term mansplaining unironically you are just as sexist as that man, the word is called ignorance, and it seems like you have a lot of it.

This isn't mansplaining. I went to school for Religious Studies and history and I constantly run into situations like this, both with religious and non-religious people. Atheists are the biggest offenders. Even tho I'm a non-believer, I am constantly told I don't know what I'm talking about or that I am biased because I studied religion. Actually, the discussion is about religion, which makes me the qualified one to talk about it in this discussion. People rarely like what I have to say...those that do are generally academics from the same areas. Why do you think that is? Whether it is creationism, climate change deniers, or anti-vaxxers, uneducated people, both men and women, think they know more than experts because they read some book or watched a YouTube video. Sorry, but not every time a man explains something to a woman is sexist.

Missing the part where this is sexism like she stated. I agree guy was kind of a douche but was very nice in the whole story and this was coming from the author who wrote it. But no sexism from what I read.

So essentially, man disagrees with you and doesn't automatically agree with an appeal to authority so he is therefore mansplaining. Makes sense...... I don't agree with his perspective, at all. But that doesn't mean I think he should have changed his mind just because an authority on "theology" which is an absurd thing to claim to be an authority on (knowing history of something doesn't mean you understand it, theological acumen can't really be measured as far as I'm concerned.), said she didn't agree. This is a prime example of a total non-story.

Good story, and good for the male friend for sticking up for the female, but this whole "mansplaning" thing is becoming a farce. This has absolutely nothing to do with gender. Plenty of women act like they know what the hell they are talking about, too. I've witnessed it firsthand. Can't we just applaud the positive of the story without resorting to using terms like "sexism" and "male privilege" when it it irrelevant?

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I want him to be my friend too.

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Please no sexism here just his beliefs and those shouldn't even be real degrees its all your opinion don't think to highly of yourself sweetheart your dont know the secret to the mysteries of thw universe no matter how many PhDs and degrees you have. PEOPLE CAN HAVE THEIR OWN OPINIONS AND IT DOESNT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE THEM WRONG AND YOU RIGHT WHEN THEY DON'T LINE UP WITH YOURS.

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I agree with everything happens for a reason. Some reason are our choises that makes us get into traps, and the second is that our choises getting us out of other traps. We all here come to learn, the easy way or the hard way. The same as women have the coise to get drunk in a party and to be raped, the same choise has a man to talk to a drunk girl and being file for a raping case. The same choise a woman has to walk in a mine field freely as a man has, and not because he or she has the freedom to do it it meams that she or he should. Is our own reposability to learn, to survive and to heal. We are being brainwashed to leave everytging to the experts where the experts have their own lives to live, while beimg our responsability to learn the basics to be independent, and so be free, and so be reponsable for our choises

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Make privilege is a myth