A TORONTO-BASED WRITER, KATIE CUNNINGHAM, TWEETED A JOKE
THAT GOT A LOT OF ATTENTION AND A LOT OF REPLY, AND THEN
SHE STARTED TROLLING THAT REPLY TO PROVE HER POINT.
THE TWEET HERE SAYS, "MY FAVORITE GAME IS TO ACT
LIKE I UNDERSTAND SOMETHING VERY SIMPLE WHEN A MAN IS
EXPLAINING IT TO ME TO SEE HOW DUMMY THINGS I AM."
HER TWITTER NAME IS VOLDEMORT'S BICEP.
SOMEBODY RESPONDED TO HER BY SAYING THIS IS DECEPTION.
SHE SAID, WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
MIC DROP.
HE CONTINUED ON TO SAY THIS.
SHE GOES, "SORRY, I DON'T GET IT?"
PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING HER TROLLING HIM, SORT OF BOLSTERING HER
POINT HERE.
SHE SAID IN AN INTERVIEW WITH BUZZ FEED NEWS, THAT
UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS A LOT OF ROOM TO EXPLAIN THAT THE
WHOLE JOKE WAS A COMMENTARY ON HOW OFTEN MEN TALK DOWN TO
HER IN PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SETTINGS, OR JUST IN GENERAL.
SHE THEN SAID THAT SHE ENGAGED IN A DIRECT MESSAGE CONVERSATION
WITH THE GUY AND THEY KIND OF HASHED IT OUT AND HE SAID HE WAS
PART OF THE JOKE ñ I THINK AFTER THE FACT.
THEY HASH TAGGED IT OUT.
I WANT TO MENTION, I STARTED FOLLOWING HER AFTER THIS TO
SEE WHAT SHE WAS UP TO.
SHE FOLLOWED ME BACK.
I WAS LIKE, DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT FOR THIS STORY,
WOULD LOVE TO GET ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD.
ONE LINE, "GIRLS RULE, BOYS DROOL."
I WAS LIKE, YOU ARE AWESOME, YOU ARE THE COOLEST PERSON EVER.
BUT IT IS VERY FUNNY.
ARE WE GOING TO DISAGREE?
YEAH, I'M GOING TO DISAGREE A LITTLE BIT.
I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS BEING SARCASTIC OR NOT.
MY INITIAL INSTINCT IS, YOU WEREN'T BEING SARCASTIC.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, I READ THIS ARTICLE IN A WEIRD WAY.
IT DID NOT DOWNLOAD THE TWEETS WHEN I FIRST READ IT.
AFTER HAVING READ ALL THE TWEETS I WAS LIKE, ACTUALLY THERE'S
SOME CHANCE HE WAS BEING SARCASTIC.
BECAUSE IT'S SO OBVIOUS.
SOME CHANCE OF IT, BUT THAT'S NOT THE IMPORTANT PART.
THE IMPORTANT PART IS, IS SHE RIGHT THAT THIS IS WHAT MEN DO?
I'M SURE THAT HAPPENS DOUGLAS I CAN ATTEST TO THAT.
100 PERCENT.
BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, YEAH A LOT OF STUFF HAPPENS ON THE
INTERNET, AND THERE'S A LOT OF DUMBASSES ON THE INTERNET
IN BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.
SO WHEN SOMEBODY IS LIKE, WHAT???
ON THE INTERNET, I ACTUALLY BELIEVE THEM.
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
THERE'S SO MUCH VITRIOL AND ABSURDITY ONLINE, SO WHEN
SOMEONE HAS TO EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO SOMEBODY, IT IS NOT
NECESSARILY A MALE-FEMALE THING.
TO ME, THE MAID ñ THE BIGGER ASSUMPTION IS, WE ARE
ONLINE AND THIS GUY OR GIRL COULD BE A KNUCKLEHEAD.
I DON'T THINK THAT IS THE COMMENTARY.
SHE IS TALKING ABOUT, AND SAYING THE ENTIRE POINT OF HER
INITIAL TWEET HERE IS THAT PEOPLE TALK DOWN TO HER.
WHEN THIS GUY WAS BEING LIKE, EXCUSE ME SWEETHEART THAT'S
CALLED DECEPTION, SHE WANTED TO MAKE HER POINT AGAIN AND DOUBLE
DOWN ON IT.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
I DO, BUT AT THE SAME TIME I'M SAYING, OFTEN TIMES PEOPLE
DON'T GIVE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT SOMEONE ELSE ONLINE THAT
THEY ARE BEING CLEVER.
THAT THEY FEEL LIKE, I HAVE TO EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU BECAUSE
APPARENTLY YOU ARE NOT GETTING IT.
I FELT LIKE IT WAS MORE OF AN INTERNET THING THEN IT WAS
A MALE FEMALE THING.
I THINK THERE ARE DUMB PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET THAT ARE
MALE AND FEMALE, 100 PERCENT, BUT I DO THINK THERE IS A
HUGE PROBLEM WITH THE WAY THAT SOMETIMES MEN TALK TO
WOMEN, AND THEY TALK DOWN TO THEM AND THEY DON'T ASSUME
THAT THEY ARE AS INTELLIGENT AS THEM, OR COULD BE AS INTELLIGENT
AS THEM OR UNDERSTAND THINGS THAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.
I THINK SHE WAS TRYING TO SHINE A LIGHT ON THAT.
I THINK I'LL MEDIATE IN
BETWEEN.
I DO UNDERSTAND THAT.
THIS IS THE THING ABOUT THESE UNIQUE STORIES, YOU CAN
ONLY PULL FROM WHAT YOU EXPERIENCE YOURSELF.
THERE HAS BEEN EXAMPLES WHERE YOU HAVE HAD PEOPLE TALK
DOWN TO YOU AND FEEL LIKE THEY NEED TO OVER EXPLAIN SOMETHING.
I'VE HAD EXAMPLES WHERE I'VE TRIED TO EXPLAIN SOMETHING,
SPORTS FOR EXAMPLE, AND THEN I HAD TO CONTINUE TO EXPLAIN
IT TO GET MY POINT ACROSS.
IT DOES NOT MEAN IT WAS A GENDER THING, IT COMES DOWN TO HOW
YOU TAKE YOUR OWN INSTANCE AND RELATE IT TO THE SCENARIO.
I DO AGREE WITH WHAT CENK IS SAYING, THERE IS THAT HINT
OF SARCASM.
IT'S A MALE THING TO SAY I MEANT TO DO THAT, I WAS PLAYING ALONG.
BUT WHAT I BE FOOLISH TO SAY THAT WOMEN ARE NOT TALKED DOWN
TO, EVEN IN AN ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT?
YES, I WOULD BE FOOLISH IF I THOUGHT THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
DO I LIKE THE WAY OF TRYING TO EXPLOIT IT TO GET ñ IN A WAY,
THE WAY SHE POSED THE QUESTION AS TO, I LIKE TO PLAY DUMB TO
HAVE MORE MEN EXPLAIN -
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS GOING TO GET THE POINT ACROSS THAT
MEN SHOULD NOT BE DOING THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
GUYS WILL THINK, THIS IS MY JOB.
I THINK SHE IS THE ONE BEING SARCASTIC IN THIS SITUATION.
QUESTION SHE'S CLEARLY BEING SARCASTIC.
SHE'S NOT CONSTANTLY PLAYING DUMB TO PANDER TO THESE GUYS WHO
ARE TALKING DOWN TO HER, BUT SOMETIMES SHE WILL KIND OF
FUCK WITH THEM AND BE SARCASTIC.
I DO THAT ALL THE TIME, IF A GUY STARTS TALKING DOWN TO ME I'LL
BE LIKE, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
BECAUSE IT'S SO OFFENSIVE THAT YOU ASSUMING I DON'T KNOW
THESE BASIC FACTS.
I DO THE ONLINE DATING HERE AND THERE AND I WILL GET MESSAGES
FROM GUYS WHO WILL SAY THE MOST RIDICULOUS THINGS.
LIKE, OH I'M FROM ñ SOME GUY SAID TO ME I'M FROM SUDAN,
WHICH IS A COUNTRY IN AFRICA.
I'M LIKE, YEAH THANKS BRO.
PEOPLE ASSUME THAT ABOUT AMERICANS.
GEOGRAPHY IS HORRENDOUS IN AMERICA.
PEOPLE WILL ASK ME WHAT PART OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND IS ENTITLED
HE WILL SAY YOU SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH FOR SCOTTISH PERSON.
AGAIN, I THINK IT'S FOOLISH TO GENERALIZE THIS.
IT'S ABOUT THE SPECIFICS OF THE EXAMPLE.
IF I CAME UP DO IN THE JOB AND TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW TO
EXPLAIN HOW TO MONETIZE YOUTUBE VIDEO ñ
TO YOU, THAT IS WRONG.
THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM USING WORKPLACE FOR NIKE WHERE THAT IS
SPECIFIC TO A CERTAIN JOB OR EXPERTISE, THAT IS
DIFFERENT FROM THE BASIC FACTS THAT YOU EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE
AND THE WAY YOU TALK ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS.
I LIKE TO ASSUME THAT PEOPLE KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING
ABOUT, AND IF YOU QUESTION CAN YOU SAY, EXPLAIN THAT BETTER.
BUT ASSUMING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW ANY SORT OF BASIC FACTS,
THAT IS OFFENSIVE.
I WILL SAY THIS LAST THING.
THIS IS WHY I LOVE THE YOUNG TURKS, WE GET TO SEE THINGS
FROM EACH OTHERS PERSPECTIVES.
I DON'T FEEL THAT MEN DO THAT TO WOMEN A LOT, BUT THAT IS
BECAUSE I'M NOT A WOMAN.
SO WHEN HANNAH EXPLAIN SOMETHING I'M LIKE, THAT'S
INTERESTING AND I WILL LOOK OUT FOR IT.
I'M NOT SAYING THAT IS THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENED HERE,
BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN BOTH SIDES OF IT.
SOME PEOPLE, YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN THINGS 18 TIMES TO THEM.
LIKE DONALD JUMP SUPPORTERS.
JORDAN, OUR REPORTER OUT THERE, GIVE ME ONE POLICY LINE.
I JUST LIKE TRUMP, I DISLIKE HIM.
NO, BUT I'M ASKING YOU FOR A POLICY.
NO, RIGHT, TRUMP.
JESUS CHRIST, I HAVE TO IS PLAINNESS AGAIN.
A POLICY.
WHY DO YOU LIKE TRUMP?
GIVE ME A POLICY.
THE FLIPSIDE OF THAT IS, I HAVE ALSO FELT WHAT YOU ARE
TALKING ABOUT AND IT IS
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONTEXT.
VIDEO BUFFERING ñ
COMPROMISE.
YEAH, NO SHIT SHERLOCK, THE QUESTION IS HOW DO YOU GET TO
THAT COMPROMISE?
WHEN THEY TREAT YOU LIKE CHILDREN LIKE YOU CAN
UNDERSTAND SIMPLE CONCEPTS, NO BUT WE THINK YOU CAN GET
A BETTER COMPROMISE IF WE HOLD OUR POSITION LONGER.
WHAT'S IRONIC ABOUT THE PEOPLE DOING THE CONDESCENSION IS,
NINE OUT OF 10 TIMES THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THINGS VERY WELL.