When a man attempts to explain to a woman her own job/ idea back at her then gets offended because they don't understand how smart they are. Often used as a term by women to try to explain to men how offensive and derogatory this behaviour is, but taken personally by insecure men who are afraid of treating women equally with respect. These men typically try to use Feminism - the belief that women should be treated with equality - as a bad word. The fact that being sexist is just as bad as being racist is not likely to occur to mansplaining men.
"She said I was mansplaining but I was just stating an idea I had - not sure where it came from, she was talkin ga minute ago about something, but you know women..always talking or nagging."
by Reallyareyouthatinsecure June 11, 2017
Mansplaining is the act of a man explaining something he may not really know to a woman who does, and the assumption behind it that knowledge is somehow inherent in the male condition, paralleling a void of knowledge waiting to be filled in the female condition.
He didn't realize it, but he was mansplaining how a woman's reproductive system works to a gynecologist (who just happened to be female).
by _womensrights March 11, 2017
The practice of a man explaining a subject condescendingly to a woman, when the woman's knowledge on the topic is greater than the man's.
Examples: see top fifteen definitions of "mansplaining" on Urban Dictionary.
Examples: see top fifteen definitions of "mansplaining" on Urban Dictionary.
Some unemployed, illiterate jackass mansplained the word "mansplaining" on Urban Dictionary because he was too afraid to talk to woman in real life.
by Brainiacgal March 12, 2017
Any time a woman is wrong and a man is talking. Sexist framing. Used to undermine anything a male says
by Pat Tree It February 07, 2022
A Term commonly used by Feminists which is when a man spreads his legs open to show off his big fat dilkwede.
by MansplainingIsCool May 20, 2019
a man explaining something condescendingly to someone (especially a woman) about something he has incomplete knowledge of with the mistaken assumption that he knows more about it than the person he's talking to does as if men are smarter than women and they try to look down to women.
'stop mansplaining'
by nekomaru August 06, 2021
by lolasalamander May 06, 2022