"Mansplaining is driven by our inflated perception of the importance of our opinion." You nailed it!!!
Mansplaining makes me SO MAD. I want to rage 1000s of years on whatever man does it, yet I usually say nothing, keeping the hurt and anger inside. I get afraid and hide. To make it doubly insulting, you have the white condescending tone to someone with black skin. Ugh.
Yet your final thoughts are perfect. Listen and be humble. Listen, and don't be afraid to be wrong, or to just allow someone to have their experience without you having to know "better" than them. Such wisdom. I'm working on this. ;)
It’s always so hard to know how to react, because you can easily be “overreacting” and getting your “panties in a bunch” because it’s “just a conversation”.
In this particular case I was angry that it was at work. I couldn’t respond how strongly I wished I could have.
But I definitely came away with the thought that hey, imma kinda like this guy sometimes.... and it gave me a newfound strength to do every thing I could to not be that way or make others feel the way I felt.