Seriously, hold my beer. A pattern has come to my attention that warrants calling out. A social media manosphere of sorts. You see I have these ‘Facebook fellas’, let’s just say, who appear out of nowhere, as in, they are not people I know, not in truth even my peers, & certainly not people with academic or experiential acumen I might look up to. And they only materialise on my posts in the comments section to execute what they seem to think is their big mic drop moment. Their comments go,‘HEY! HEY YOU! YOU’VE GOT THIS ALL WRONG. I UNDERSTAND IT BETTER. LISTEN UP!’ Yes, bold & CAPSLOCK-all-intended because, while plain text doesn’t possess tone, it apparently can deliver at different decibels and comment such as these are always dialled up to DISTORTION. Well Chuck, or Chad or Hank or whatever your name is. I tell you what you clearly don’t understand…
Evidence
Science
Nutrition
Academic Discourse & Debate
let alone Basic Manners or Online Etiquette
And sorry but it has to be said….
Women’s Health Better Than Women
Because to have whatever-his-name-is tell me, and all women, for example. that if we need to use iron supplements we don’t actually understand iron and we’re doing it wrong…well…. For those of us that have spent years studying nutrition as part of our qualifications, then yet more years, if not decades, applying it in the real world, while always updating our understanding based on the very latest evidence…while perhaps even in countries affected by food insecurity and most of our lives menstruating…well we may beg to differ. But the real rockstar ‘tude is when I actually take the time to engage, offering some alternative things for them to reflect on and respond to, about physiology or pathology or the intricacies of a micronutrient’s LADME+R and their response. Well there isn’t one. So I’ve stopped taking the bait.
Because they’re not here to engage in an intelligent exchange – they are here to dominate
They don’t want to discuss – they actually want to shout you down – shut you down
And they’re certainly not here to learn…
So let me say this, if this is your MO my mansplaining FB Fellas get out of my comments and off my page….because as one of your better brothers, Bruce Lee, put it “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer”.
By the way…these ‘FB FELLAs’ don’t actually look like this according to their profile pics…but ‘it’s the vibe of the thing’…right?!😉
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