• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m a guy, and I really don’t give a damn. I surround myself with folks who are open-minded and won’t make me insecure. Or if someone tries to, I don’t let them get into my head. It says a lot about themselves trying to put me down than about me.

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      1 month ago

      This is the way.

      The comic is more getting at that women can’t say much without a ‘well actually-ism’. I have a mentor who is an expert in her field, and she’s actually had male engineers try and tell her she’s wrong about checks notes her field (not engineering related). I’m a man in the same field as her, and I’ve never had this happen. Anecdotal evidence, I know, but the point remains.

      I dislike how men assume we know more, and the way we go about challenging things, or colour outside the lines of our knowledge base. You can still challenge something, but with questions, not insistence that you’re right.