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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Not exactly mansplaining, but it's the same sort of assumption/condescension on the basis of gender... I was in a Best Buy once, looking at graphics cards. A (male) floor associate came over to ask me if I was *lost*. Not if I needed help, not if I was looking for something specific. If I was *lost*. As if his ridiculous little brain couldn't even comprehend the idea of a woman ever intentionally standing next to a graphics card.

I'd walked into the Best Buy on my way home from my job, at a university, where I was on the team building what was at the time one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet. High chance I know more about computer hardware than everyone in that entire store collectively ever will. But sure, yeah, sweetheart, I'm *lost*. Prick.
gpt
This is nearly the exact reason I haven't been to Best Buy in like 20 years. Except for me, I was a teenager trying to buy my own PS2. I knew what I wanted, and what games I wanted, but the two salesmen kept hounding me and trying to redirect me to like puzzle games instead of the JRPGs that I was after. Which is really weird in itself nowadays, but I guess women didn't like JRPGs back then?

It was really frustrating because they just wouldn't get me what I asked for and kept suggesting other things. So I just left and bought my shit elsewhere. And never went back.