Are ruthless guys more attractive than kind, good guys?

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A word containing "man" does not make it a generalization.

Perhaps a definition would help:
Mansplain; verb: (of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.

Thus far, it describes a type of behavior seen in men only.
I've yet to hear of an instance when "womansplain" might be used...

Sometimes people have communication styles that are knowledge driven and they might be inclined to share their own thought processes to a man... or a woman. This sometimes starts with brief summaries of foundational knowledge and common ground.

The knowledge imparting part is something that men can have a problem with, when the knowledge is being received by a woman, who might perceive this as a sexist conversation, even if it wasn't intended to be on the man's part.

Sometimes something can be sexist, racist, etc. even if there was no intention to be so. I think awareness can help with that. It’s not always intuitive why something could be problematic, especially depending on one’s background or environment.

Sometimes a guy shares his knowledge with a woman, because he wants her to know that he knows the basic knowledge of a topic at hand.

I wonder if in these scenarios a woman might sometimes interpret this sort of thing as mansplaining, thinking that the man thinks that she doesn't know what he is telling her already, rather than clarifying his own position of knowledge?

^ Sometimes, probably - but the existence of the word "mansplaining" appears to indicate the condescending or patronizing aspect is prevalent with men.

^^ There are ways to do the above without making it appear like mansplaining. Framing whatever it might be as a question rather than as a statement about her experience or women in general could help. Qualifiers can be useful, too, rather than make firm statements. It depends somewhat on the particular topic/conversation.

Something is mansplaining if it’s condescending in some way. Telling women what it’s like to be a woman will often be considered mansplaining no matter what the intention might be. Something can be mansplaining even if it wasn’t intended to be. That’s most often the case. For that matter, most people who have beliefs that are racist, sexist, homophobic, or whatever usually think their beliefs and intentions are good. That doesn’t necessarily connect to mansplaining, but I think it’s important. Very few people want to recognize this stuff. They’d rather demonize the terms “racist” and “sexist” or whatever and believe they are much less common than they truly are. People can be nice and decent in many respects but have some form of bigotry just the same. Even more often, people don’t want to admit that something was mansplaining or sexist, perhaps because of the stigma. A person can commit faux pas like mansplaining without being a bad person.

Is this still a thread about the attractiveness of ruthless guys versus good guys?