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Really great group of people. Somebody says, I think when a woman says somebody is mansplaining

that it is the same as a man calling a woman a bitch.

What do you think?

Yeah, so mansplaining is a term that was invented

to hide the appalling ignorance of women

on a wide variety of topics.

Now, women are wonderful, and they know a lot about things that men don't know about,

but in terms of, you know, politics, economics, abstract issues and so on,

women tend to be drawn to, on average, tons of exceptions,

but women tend to be drawn more to interpersonal feelings and relationship-based

things and so on. And that's great. I mean, this beautiful aspect of women. But the reason that

man-splaining was invented as a term was so women's ignorance on a variety of topics is hidden from men and it's a way of making sure that

men don't sort of identify that clearly and so on.

So I mean, and you can just, you don't have to believe me, you can just do this experiment

as a whole in your life, ask men and women a variety of political

and economic and other abstract questions and see how they do. And, you know, on average, men

will do slightly better. According to the data, men will do actually considerably better in some

areas. So women were given the vote, right? And that's great. And then, of course, women were exempted

for the draft, which is not the kind of equality they're looking for. And one of the, I mean, I made

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