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At the IntersectionManterruption Redux

Last August and September, we published a two-part article on the phenomenon called "manterruption." We commented on some important social research discussing men's pervasive tendency to interrupt women in group meetings or settings where the power stakes were high ("manterruption") and to appropriate women's ideas as their own ("bropropriation"). These posts triggered a torrent of response, some of which was gratifying to us and some of which was pretty bewildering.

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Last August and September, we published a two-part article on the phenomenon called “manterruption.” We commented on some important social research discussing men’s pervasive tendency to interrupt women in group meetings or settings where the power stakes were high (“manterruption”) and to appropriate women’s ideas as their own (“bropropriation”). We did not conduct this social research; we just reported on it. Yet these posts triggered a torrent of response, some of which was gratifying to us and some of which was pretty bewildering, given that it came from a group supposedly known for its commitment to rules of law and principles of fairness.

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