femlistening

- n. (gerund)

1. The act of ingnoring an entire conversation and dismissing it's validity because a cis male is speaking.
2. The act of assuming that cis male has no experience or expertise in a given subject based in gender.
3. Perceiving, (and being offended by ) emotional undertones in innocuous statements that was not intended by a cis male speaker.
"I tried to tell her how to put oil in the car, but she was femlistening and now there's windshield wiper fluid in the crankcase."

" Many cases of mansplaining are just femlistening in disguise. "
by Reverend Logos April 13, 2021
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