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- noun colloquial
Explaining (something) in acondescending orself-righteous manner, especially as aman to awoman .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You may be a mansplainer if you continue to come back to a thread about mansplaining examples to whine about how men encounter frustrating scenarios with females after you've been specifically told to take it to another thread. you might be a fucking douchebag if you freak out over the idea of mansplaining without realizing the time honored tradition of dismissing women talking as being some irrelevant annoyance.
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You may be a mansplainer if you continue to come back to a thread about mansplaining examples to whine about how men encounter frustrating scenarios with females after you've been specifically told to take it to another thread. you might be a fucking douchebag if you freak out over the idea of mansplaining without realizing the time honored tradition of dismissing women talking as being some irrelevant annoyance.
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Also, thank you for redefining "mansplaining" for everyone here.
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Also, thank you for redefining "mansplaining" for everyone here.
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One can criticise Andrea Dworkin's theories without "mansplaining".
Planet Atheism Pharyngula 2010
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I have a husband who is, shall we say, an offshoot of "mansplaining".
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Part of the problem is that there's two ways to define a phenomenon like "mansplaining" or
feminist blogs amanda marcotte 2010
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I have a husband who is, shall we say, an offshoot of "mansplaining".
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"mansplaining" at you, and how is that different than when meanie bloggers make fun of trolls for being stupid?
feminist blogs amanda marcotte 2010
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Dude Rock ", though of course, the butt hurtness in this instance has nothing to do with the comically elevated levels of it that erupted with" mansplaining "was invented, or the alarming and sad way butt hurtness erupts in feminist blog posts about rape that attract irate men demanding, demanding, that the feminist tell them how much coercion they get away with before it's officially rape.
feminist blogs amanda marcotte 2010
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Mansplaining describes the specific moment when a man assumes ignorance of a topic by a woman who is actually at least as knowledgeable, if not more knowledgeable, about the topic.
Reflection – Male historians explain things to me: Masculinity, expertise, and the academy Charlotte Lydia Riley 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word mansplaining
Mansplaining (a blend of the word man and the informal form splaining of the verb explaining) means "(of a man) to comment on or explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner". Lily Rothman of "The Atlantic" defines it as "explaining without regard to the fact that the explainee knows more than the explainer, often done by a man to a woman". Author Rebecca Solnit ascribes the phenomenon to a combination of "overconfidence and cluelessness".
In its original use, mansplaining differed from other forms of condescension in that it is rooted in the sexist assumption that a man is likely to be more knowledgeable than a woman. However, it has come to be used more broadly, often applied when a man takes a condescending tone in an explanation to anyone, regardless of the age or gender of the intended recipients: a "man 'splaining" can be delivered to any audience. In 2010 it was named by the New York Times as one of its "Words of the Year".
A widespread phenomenon that "keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence.
May 15, 2018