PSA: If someone is posting about behavior being exhausting to the point that they are considering leaving a platform, then doing more of it "as a joke" is neither supportive nor helpful. And also not funny. (This is re *two separate accounts* making a joke about mansplaining mansplaining to me on a post where I had already been mansplained about how to handle mansplaining.)

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Distributed AI Research Community

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (@emilymbender@dair-community.social)

Once again feeling like it's almost not worth posting to Mastodon given the degree of mansplaining that everything I put up here attracts. Why is ...

I appreciate all of the positive feedback to this post, and will do my best to stick around. ... even though this post actually had someone in the replies mansplaining at me about how to deal with mansplaining. View quoted note →

Once again feeling like it's almost not worth posting to Mastodon given the degree of mansplaining that everything I put up here attracts. Why is it so hard to read the whole thread and/or acknowledge with a 'yes and' -- or maybe check who you are replying to/posting at? Gah.