After hours of listening to Mary babble, I mansplained our sales pitch in a few minutes and everyone loved it.
LaToya struggled with her dinner order, so I mansplained it to the waiter.
The traffic cop was about throw a beat down on Tanya but I mansplained that she was in labor.
LaToya struggled with her dinner order, so I mansplained it to the waiter.
The traffic cop was about throw a beat down on Tanya but I mansplained that she was in labor.
by Al-BadDaddy November 19, 2017
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.
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 26, 2009
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
(of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing:
Most believe this to be only a term used by feminists when they don't have a reply, however it is a term actually meant to explain with someone is patronizing or belittling your intelligence due to your gender.
Most believe this to be only a term used by feminists when they don't have a reply, however it is a term actually meant to explain with someone is patronizing or belittling your intelligence due to your gender.
We were talking about politics when he starting mansplaining things to me like I was in kindergarten, as if my gender means I have a lower iq
by oddkam April 24, 2017
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.
by Mayor Goodtime August 20, 2021
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."
by Lady Accurate August 30, 2017
To explain something in an unnecessarily long winded way, so as to dominate the conversation, and to make statements that are not based on facts, assuming that people will believe and agree with him because he is male.
"The recession was caused by the government because it spent too much money and people should look after themselves and not expect society to look after its members or its community... ad nauseam.
...Therefore its all womens fault."
^mansplaining.
...Therefore its all womens fault."
^mansplaining.
by lifelimbo January 29, 2011