It’s time to start a new folder labeled “Why Trump Won (2017),” because last year’s folder is going to burst at the seams if we try to cram in one more item.
If you don’t know by now why mansplaining is bad, we’re certainly not going to tell you. And things had gotten so bad on the New York subway during the Obama administration that Bill de Blasio had to crack down on manspreading, the practice of sitting with the knees so far apart as to “interfere with the operation of the Authority’s transit system or the comfort of other passengers.”
Fortune reports that men have yet another behavior that needs to be confronted, and that is manterrupting. Worse yet, the onus is on men to call out other menterrupters in the workplace.
It’s time for men to call out manterrupters https://t.co/zTU7CaTjAf pic.twitter.com/mlm4QYrdDJ
— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) January 3, 2017
(that's not a real word)
— Dr. Kankokage (@kankokage) January 3, 2017
Jeffery Tobias Halter, president of YWomen, writes in Fortune that gender bias exists in subtle ways in the workplace; for example, “women are more likely to be interrupted in a meeting (even by other women) than men.” So stop it, OK?
https://twitter.com/ChaseMartinIMM/status/816384786130407424
https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/816380890074857472
agree, men should never be interrupted when explaining stuff to women
— Pat Boldosser (@pboldosser) January 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/DjonesBigWork/status/816382759362928640
ffs can we stop adding "man" to the beginning of words we don't like?
— Fox (@________fox_) January 3, 2017
where do they come up with these names? Someone has way too much time on their hands.
— Candy Lamb (@candylamb47) January 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/Melvin_Udall_/status/816383132777648128
Women are so strong and empowered they need men to tell other men to stop interrupting!
— Ming the Austere (@_Emperor_Ming_) January 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/Silvershine20/status/816394651116650497
So feminism went from "we women can take care of ourselves" to "men, don't let other men be mean to us". This is progress?
— Sarah Irwin (@sirwin9) January 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/factseeker3/status/816390376118489088
for those who follow for actual business and economic info, this is embarrassing.
— DG (@7pints) January 3, 2017
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Media called on to fact-check #DebateNight, tallies sexist interruptions of Hillary Clinton instead https://t.co/Sd0NLyedbd
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 27, 2016
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