Misandrist term used in the extreme pejorative sense by female chauvinists to denigrate efforts by men to offer explanations for multifarious phenomena.
e.g. Susan talking in an angry voice to her life-partner Dave: You're such a typical man, I hate the way that you always mansplain the most ridiculously simple things to me as if I'm just a child and too stupid to understand.
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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 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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Get the Mansplaining mug.A term used when a person (usually a man) explains something to someone (usually a woman) in a way that is inherently condescending.
Often misunderstood as any time a man disagrees with a woman - thereby deeming it a sexist slur against men as it implies that any difference of opinion with a woman automatically makes him a sexist - it is about the context of what is being explained.
Thus, while whatever it is usually IS factual, it is insulting in its delivery.
Often misunderstood as any time a man disagrees with a woman - thereby deeming it a sexist slur against men as it implies that any difference of opinion with a woman automatically makes him a sexist - it is about the context of what is being explained.
Thus, while whatever it is usually IS factual, it is insulting in its delivery.
Example: Two coworkers (one man, one woman) work in finance. They go to lunch. When the check comes, the male coworker slyly offers to teach her a "trick," then proceeds to explain how to calculate a 10% tip.
The female coworker might say, "He mansplained how to move a decimal."
The female coworker might say, "He mansplained how to move a decimal."
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