"Society doesn't have a general widespread assumption that men are not experts in their field (though it does happen in some specific areas such as childcare), and so women by definition cannot engage in mansplaining. It's a bit like picking on someone smaller than you: if you're smaller than the other person, you cannot be described as picking on someone smaller than you."
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Eugenia Cheng: x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender (2020)
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