Me: Gets PhD in animal behaviour and studies animal behaviour for 20-odd years
Random man: "I, too, have looked at an animal once in my life, I will now e-mail this woman to tell her about animal behaviour that she probably has never seen as fully and expertly I have"
Me: Puts e-mail with the mainsplaining collection
Most of us astronomers have email folders like that. Mansplaining (also to men) why we're all wrong with a tendency towards conspiracy theories.
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Is the difference between a mansplainer and a crank only the gender labels of the two interacting parties?
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In my use not. Mansplaining for me is a condescending explaining of issues to people that probably have more knowledge on the topic than the mansplainer. And it's 95% men that do this, but not exclusively.
Crank for me is someone that propagates non-scientific "science" ideas.
Those cranks that I hear of are usually also mansplainers (and men, as far as I can tell), but only some mansplainers are cranks.