2 definitions by Windup-Bird
1. An antidote to mansplaining, Republisplaining, and alternative facts
2. Telling it like it is
3. Hitting someone with a dose of reality
4. Exposing someone to the reality that they have been denying and probably want to continue to deny
5. Sharing a difficult or inconvenient truth
2. Telling it like it is
3. Hitting someone with a dose of reality
4. Exposing someone to the reality that they have been denying and probably want to continue to deny
5. Sharing a difficult or inconvenient truth
1. When the company established an all-male panel to discuss "women in science," Teresa truthsplained why this was problematic.
2. When her white co-worker dissed Beyoncé's pregnancy announcement, Naomi truthsplained the beauty and symbolism behind it.
3. When Susie insists that her religious freedom is under attack if she has to bake a cake for a lesbian couple, Ricardo truthsplains that baking a cake in no way attacks or infringes upon her religious freedom, while refusing to serve someone based on sexual orientation does in fact infringe upon their basic human rights.
2. When her white co-worker dissed Beyoncé's pregnancy announcement, Naomi truthsplained the beauty and symbolism behind it.
3. When Susie insists that her religious freedom is under attack if she has to bake a cake for a lesbian couple, Ricardo truthsplains that baking a cake in no way attacks or infringes upon her religious freedom, while refusing to serve someone based on sexual orientation does in fact infringe upon their basic human rights.
by Windup-Bird February 18, 2017
1. A candidate or competitor who wins on a technicality then occupies (or squanders) their tenure in a "braggadocious" attempt to prove that their triumph was a mandate by the people or by God
2. A person who has technically won a contest but is so insecure about themselves and the margin by which they won that they constantly bring up the competition, belittle their competitor, and inflate their own achievement long past the end of the contest
3. The equivalent of a sore loser, and yet they won
4. The loser of a contest who ends up winning on a technicality
5. Anyone who wins an election and models themselves after Donald Trump
2. A person who has technically won a contest but is so insecure about themselves and the margin by which they won that they constantly bring up the competition, belittle their competitor, and inflate their own achievement long past the end of the contest
3. The equivalent of a sore loser, and yet they won
4. The loser of a contest who ends up winning on a technicality
5. Anyone who wins an election and models themselves after Donald Trump
by Windup-Bird February 17, 2017