Male: "... And that's why the Lord of the Rings is better than Harry Potter."
Female: "why do you have to go around mansplaining everything? You're such a jerk."
Female: "why do you have to go around mansplaining everything? You're such a jerk."
by Closeted March 10, 2021
Get the Mansplaining mug.A stupid word made up by a sissy snowflake society (typically feminists) in an attempt to demean men and how they speak.
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When a man tells someone whom he thinks is beneath him a really dumbed down version of what something is. It is usually a man talking to a woman with a condescending or patronizing tone in his voice.
by ProudW0men August 30, 2022
Get the Mansplaining mug.When a group of Americans (mostly white) try to explain to a Mexican how something about their culture works.
Group of Americans: “No Rico... you clearly don’t know how to make guacamole. Let us explain to you how this works. Leaving the pits in water or in the guac does not prevent it from going brown.”
Mexican Rico: “Stop mexplaining to me how to make guacamole... I grew up in Mexico!”
Mexican Rico: “Stop mexplaining to me how to make guacamole... I grew up in Mexico!”
by snapchatking November 11, 2018
Get the mexplaining mug.When a man (or any gender) re-explains something a woman (or any gender) has just said., as if what the first speaker said was not accurate or complete.
His mansplaining is really getting to me. Why does he have to reiterate everything I say, immediately after I say it?
by Cyber-gal June 3, 2017
Get the Mansplaining mug.The act of a man explaining something he may not really know to a woman who does, due to an assumption or expectation that knowledge is somehow inherent in the male condition, paralleling a void of knowledge waiting to be filled in the female condition.
Man: There are fascinating research developments in paleotherapy these days.
Wiman: why, yes, I'm actually the...
Man: it's like this, the researchers have learned that...yadda, yadda, yadda....and then they...,
Woman ( finally grabbing the mic after he's been talking nonstop for 10 minutes): I know. I have been the lead scientist the research team for eight years.
In this situation, the man is mansplaining because he does not know as much about the topic as the woman but he speaks authoritatively on it and talks over her attempts to correct him and to tell him she doesn't need the explanation.
Wiman: why, yes, I'm actually the...
Man: it's like this, the researchers have learned that...yadda, yadda, yadda....and then they...,
Woman ( finally grabbing the mic after he's been talking nonstop for 10 minutes): I know. I have been the lead scientist the research team for eight years.
In this situation, the man is mansplaining because he does not know as much about the topic as the woman but he speaks authoritatively on it and talks over her attempts to correct him and to tell him she doesn't need the explanation.
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