by NaturallySo March 11, 2017
Get the mansplaining mug.Not to be confused with mansplained but similar in notion. Manplaining is when a man steps in for a woman to complain on her behalf despite the fact that it is either unnecessary, over the top, and particularly not his fight.
When a young man slightly bumped into Jill in aisle 3 of the supermarket David quickly manplained rebuking the young man in a rather loud manner resulting in a "major scene" despite the fact that the man nor Jill for that matter deemed the the slight contact worthy of any type of verbal exchange.
by Dr. Glayvine March 20, 2021
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Verb: (of a woman), to explain something to someone, typically a man, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing
by Billy Goldtsein July 25, 2017
Get the Maamsplaining mug.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!
—omg, mansplainception!
by _peligroso January 5, 2019
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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.
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!"
"Quit mansplaining, you condescending jerk!"
by WTF-O August 18, 2017
Get the mansplaining mug.Mansplaining is when a man takes over a conversation about a topic he knows little, or less about than the woman he is talking with (or the other non-cis-male folks). It can be about anything really, and the worst happenings are when the women not only know all about the topic, they often have written an entire book on it, etc. This phenomenon of erasure of women's knowledge happens because men (especially white-cis men) are raised to believe that their opinions and thoughts matter most -- that their intellect is supreme. This is about Male Privilege and not all men do it.
I was talking about the book I just wrote to a friend when a man interrupted me to tell me all about the topic. Not only is that rude, it's the definitive mansplaining behavior.
by solidaritylove March 11, 2017
Get the mansplaining mug.A word that can't be defined, since females can't make up their mind or agree on its definition, and males don't give a shit about it.
by Don'thave1 May 19, 2020
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