When a man explains something to a woman, uninvited, about a topic she is either equally qualified or more qualified to talk on.
A male doctor explaining something to a female patient, for example, would not be mansplaining.
Examples: The guy who tried to tell Margaret Atwood about "The Handmaid's Tale", the guy who told Katie Mack, who has a PHD in Astrophysics, to "learn some science" because he thought climate change was a hoax, the man who tried to correct a woman about how to pronounce her own name correctly, an Englishman correcting a Welsh woman on her Welsh pronunciation.
See also Dunning-Kruger effect.
A male doctor explaining something to a female patient, for example, would not be mansplaining.
Examples: The guy who tried to tell Margaret Atwood about "The Handmaid's Tale", the guy who told Katie Mack, who has a PHD in Astrophysics, to "learn some science" because he thought climate change was a hoax, the man who tried to correct a woman about how to pronounce her own name correctly, an Englishman correcting a Welsh woman on her Welsh pronunciation.
See also Dunning-Kruger effect.
Look at this idiot trying to mansplain periods to women... he thinks women only have nine periods a year... wait 'til you hear his lecture on how to insert a tampon correctly!
by Jorgs August 02, 2019
When someone "explains" something to another person about a topic they are already familiar with/understand. This is typically done in a condescending manner under the pretense that the speaker knows more about the topic than who they are speaking to, i.e. they are subordinate.
1) Explaining the rules of poker to a poker dealer
2)Repeating a point back to someone in your own way, even if they just said the same thing
3)Telling a person that you know more about something because of blank, even though they are a professional/have a degree in the field that you do not have
Sidenote: it is okay to know a lot about a topic and make this known in conversation, but assuming that you know more than someone else, not accepting if you are wrong, not accepting that they may simply be more knowledgeable, and/or doing so in a condescending manner means that you are mansplaining.
Note: this definition and examples were built together by both a man and a woman
2)Repeating a point back to someone in your own way, even if they just said the same thing
3)Telling a person that you know more about something because of blank, even though they are a professional/have a degree in the field that you do not have
Sidenote: it is okay to know a lot about a topic and make this known in conversation, but assuming that you know more than someone else, not accepting if you are wrong, not accepting that they may simply be more knowledgeable, and/or doing so in a condescending manner means that you are mansplaining.
Note: this definition and examples were built together by both a man and a woman
by pseudonymsaredumbquitaskingme April 19, 2018
She said an El Camino was a truck. I told her I feel like it’s more a hybrid of a car and a truck.
She shot me for mansplaining and the woke majority called her queen
She shot me for mansplaining and the woke majority called her queen
by CreativeFunnyName November 08, 2020
A stupid term that "Feminists" use when they feel minorly threatened or when they feel the tiniest bit of aggression, or to hide the fact that they're a douchebag. women may use this term when you talk in a slightly condescending attitude, even jokingly, they explain this as "Thinking that you're better or smarter than them because they're women. no, this is not the case. i'm just trying to help you, whether you need it or not. and that's how i talk to everybody, whether you were a man, woman, the emperor of the Persian empire, i don't care.
Markus: hey Mary did you hear what our president did this time?
Marian: Which president?
Markus: who else? isn't it obvious?
Marian: STOP MANSPLAINING YOU MISOGYNISTIC ASSHOLE!
Markus: MY disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Marian: Which president?
Markus: who else? isn't it obvious?
Marian: STOP MANSPLAINING YOU MISOGYNISTIC ASSHOLE!
Markus: MY disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
by Whom'st've January 28, 2021
Mansplaining - explaining something with common words, activly avoiding technical and proffesional language
the pen warriors at the office just gave me this document, i dont understand it. can you mansplain this to me?
"...when you pressurise this thingamajigger this part wil move out of the way, revealing this hole and blocking the other..." -yeah yeah, stop mansplaining. i am not a child!
"...when you pressurise this thingamajigger this part wil move out of the way, revealing this hole and blocking the other..." -yeah yeah, stop mansplaining. i am not a child!
by cockford ollie December 05, 2020
A bullshit term used by supposed feminists (read: misandrists) to dismiss any logical and/or factual explanation by a man simply because they have issues with men.
Woman: "Men are more privileged than women in almost all areas of life."
Man: "That's not true. We're mostly alone and treated with contempt, nobody cares about our problems, and if we're useless for any reason, we're left to die."
Woman: "Please. Save me your mansplain of how you have it worse than us."
Man: ".... what?"
Man: "That's not true. We're mostly alone and treated with contempt, nobody cares about our problems, and if we're useless for any reason, we're left to die."
Woman: "Please. Save me your mansplain of how you have it worse than us."
Man: ".... what?"
by Davis The Untamed July 19, 2020
to delighting in condescending, inaccurate explanations delivered with rock solid confidence of rightness and that slimy certainty that of course he is right, because he is the man in this conversation
Even though he knew she had an advanced degree in neuroscience, he felt the need to mansplain "there are molecules in the brain called neurotransmitters"
by Handmaid February 05, 2010