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Mansplaining

You’re mansplaining,

You’re a feminist peice of shit.
by Whiteprivlage June 30, 2018
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Mansplain

To explain in a patronizing manner, assuming total ignorance on the part of those listening. The mansplainer is often shocked and hurt when their mansplanation is not taken as absolute fact, criticized or even rejected altogether.

Named for a behavior commonly exhibited by male newbies on internet forums frequented primarily by women. Often leads to a flounce. Either sex can be guilty of mansplaining.
The members of the equestrian community were unimpressed when Bob posted an essay that mansplained a solution to a horsy problem they were all well-acquainted with.
by TheGiggler April 25, 2009
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Mansplaining

A feeble attempt for Women to again make Men aware how rude it is to explain to them their own job/skills/capabilities. Feeble as men prefer to maintain gender inequality because it benefits them to ignore their horrible behaviour and continue to dominate and control for the sake of their insecurities. It I am much easier to be angry and blame women for wanting to be treated equally than to learn how to treat them with respect and decency.
She said I was mansplaining when allI was doing was giving her advice on how to handle a situation in her job.
by Reallyareyouthatinsecure June 9, 2017
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Mansplaining is a man explaining something to a woman in her own area of expertise.
It was excruciatingly painful to overhear the mansplaining she was subjected to on a daily basis.
by NaturallySo March 11, 2017
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Fansplaining

A spiel given by a comic book/film franchise know it all/fan boy about something in the movie condescending over others who are understanding the plot at face value.
"You don't understand George, Jean Grey eventually becomes the most powerful X Men so that's why her eyes turn red."
"Stop fansplaining , Garry."
by CrankyBob June 6, 2018
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Mansplainception

When some dude tries to explain to a woman why he was not mansplaining something (yet he totally was, obviously).
—… so that’s why my unrequested and condescending explanation was by all means not mansplaing.
—omg, mansplainception!
by _peligroso January 5, 2019
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mansplaining

Current and widest usage:
A form of sexist hate speech designed to denigrate men and shut down their ability to participate in a discussion, through the use of a term designed to have a shaming impact on them, but which really indicates that the user has no real ideas or arguments, and is relying one her privileged status as a female to deny equal conversational rights to a male, or men in general.

Original intent:

A term used to shame and shut down a man who a woman felt was "talking down to her" about a subject that she already knows about. - For example, a man trying to explain how an airplane works to a woman who has been a pilot for twenty years.
"When your brother did that, I felt like he was being rude to me, so I guess I was rude back"
"Quit mansplaining, you condescending jerk!"
by WTF-O August 18, 2017
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