My friends coined a word: hepeated. For when a woman suggests an idea and it’s ignored, but then a guy says the same thing and everyone loves it,” she announced.She gave a couple of examples: “Ugh! I got hepeated in that meeting again,” or “He totally hepeated me!”The concept was immediately recognised. Gugliucci’s original tweet got 185k likes and 58.8k retweets.The OED hasn’t included it. Yet.
But the term has just been introduced into an internal handbook for the staff of the exam regulator Ofqual, where hepeating is described as “a situation where a man repeats a woman’s comments or ideas and then is praised for them as if they were his own”.He’s not a massive fan. It’s an “ugly new made-up word that’s foolish and devoid of meaning”, he told the Mail on Sunday. He went on to say that it “should play no role in educational advice”.
Wow that's some hateful content you've got there Guardian. Toxic even. Sadly also, this kind of bigoted nonsense also plays right into the hands of the right and those that are genuinely undermining society. Such a self-own. Please grow up soon!
This is nonsense. Sure, ‘mansplaining’ occurs when a man talks down to a woman, and it’s sexist and unacceptable. But interrupting others is just that and rude and we all sometimes do it. And taking credit for others’ ideas also happens and isn’t acceptable regardless of gender.