Dude ngl so I was accused of mansplaining by an ex while explaining some technical shit I was talking about and I knew she didn’t know, claiming she did in fact know…
Assume that everyone else she shares their exact knowledge?
And that’s exactly what I did, upon her request. I stopped explaining technical terms when talking about something assuming she’ll just know what a buffer tube and an H3 weight are. Turns out that made her “feel stupid” which of course wasn’t my intention, I intended to both A) comply with her literal request as per respecting boundaries, and B) hope she’d see just how ineffective of a system that is for communication. Turns out I was the asshole for doing as she asked, who knew. She threatened to shoot me (she wasn’t gonna do shit but still threatening to isn’t exactly “chill”) when we broke up for the crime of checks notes spending my own money legally, so I’m sure I was the problem lol.
There’s not much of a point to that story really other than I enjoy telling it but I rarely get to since it’s rarely relevant, and to say don’t bother assuming everyone knows things, they might just hate that too lol. Danged if ya do danged if ya don’t, I’m royally danged.
Dude ngl so I was accused of mansplaining by an ex while explaining some technical shit I was talking about and I knew she didn’t know, claiming she did in fact know…
And that’s exactly what I did, upon her request. I stopped explaining technical terms when talking about something assuming she’ll just know what a buffer tube and an H3 weight are. Turns out that made her “feel stupid” which of course wasn’t my intention, I intended to both A) comply with her literal request as per respecting boundaries, and B) hope she’d see just how ineffective of a system that is for communication. Turns out I was the asshole for doing as she asked, who knew. She threatened to shoot me (she wasn’t gonna do shit but still threatening to isn’t exactly “chill”) when we broke up for the crime of checks notes spending my own money legally, so I’m sure I was the problem lol.
There’s not much of a point to that story really other than I enjoy telling it but I rarely get to since it’s rarely relevant, and to say don’t bother assuming everyone knows things, they might just hate that too lol. Danged if ya do danged if ya don’t, I’m royally danged.