When a teen condescendingly assumes that they know more about a topic than the adults around them, usually their parents. The teen then explains the topic to the adult as if the adult is completely ignorant regardless of their experience or expertise. This is frequently accompanied by the extreme certainty that can only be maintained through inexperience.
Maya was teensplaining to me that intelligence is about 75% heritable.
"You'd know that if you weren't such an idiot, Dad!"
My daughter teensplained pop music to me, as if I hadn't lived through the 80s.
"You'd know that if you weren't such an idiot, Dad!"
My daughter teensplained pop music to me, as if I hadn't lived through the 80s.
by ZippySanjay June 21, 2017
Get the Teensplaining mug.The act of making your point of view be the be all & end all of political correctness no matter the actual matter or your point of view being scientifically correct. Explaining why you want to cancel a show that makes you sad but other happy.
They yelled & screamed at the crowd their point of view, no one really knew why they were burring Harry Potter books.
As they screeched the crowd knew it was their way of transplaning
As they screeched the crowd knew it was their way of transplaning
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The phenomenon of explaining something to someone who has similar or superior knowledge of the subject being explained. Similar to "mansplaining" but occurs regardless of gender. Full "Travsplaining" requires travsplainer to be actually named "Travis".
So I was talking about a historically accurate costume I was making and Travis started Travsplaining about medieval clothing like I hadn't shown him photos of half a dozen outfits I had already made before.
Travis was showing me his houseplants and started Travsplaining about how plant food is basically just sugar water so you can make your own for cheap. Then he remembered that I worked in a flower shop for 10 years and got embarrassed.
Travis was showing me his houseplants and started Travsplaining about how plant food is basically just sugar water so you can make your own for cheap. Then he remembered that I worked in a flower shop for 10 years and got embarrassed.
by T2thaM420 September 21, 2022
Get the Travsplaining mug.When your parents tell you how to look after your kids. Back in their day they did things differently.
G: I brought up six kids and they all slept on their front. None of them died.
Me: Great, but times and advice have both changed. Stop gransplaining.
Me: Great, but times and advice have both changed. Stop gransplaining.
by kemposaur March 16, 2017
Get the gransplaining mug.When someone of an older generation (typically a Baby Boomer) condescendingly explains why you are doing something wrong, even though they lack the shared experience necessary to equate theirs with yours.
"You don't need to go into debt to attend college. Just get a part-time job like I did!"
"Stop gransplaining me, Boomer."
"Stop gransplaining me, Boomer."
by G00F November 14, 2019
Get the Gransplaining mug.Similar to mansplaining but with a teenager who firmly believes he/she/they know everything, and are therefore obligated to explain it to you. Often accompanied with an eye roll followed by stomping and a door slam.
(Mom and Teenager watching Home Alone)
Teen: Mom, wait until you see what happens when the power goes out.
Mom: You mean when their phone lines are down?
Teen: Did know that phones went down back then?
Mom: Yes.
Teen: Well, it was because there weren't cell phones and they had phone calls go through wires.
Mom: I know. I was a kid at the time.
Teen: But this is different, Mom. You just don't understand! (Eye roll / stomp away)
Mom: I cannot believe he just teensplaining me about something I experienced 30 years before he existed! How does he think she automatically knows more than me and has to explain it?
Teen: Mom, wait until you see what happens when the power goes out.
Mom: You mean when their phone lines are down?
Teen: Did know that phones went down back then?
Mom: Yes.
Teen: Well, it was because there weren't cell phones and they had phone calls go through wires.
Mom: I know. I was a kid at the time.
Teen: But this is different, Mom. You just don't understand! (Eye roll / stomp away)
Mom: I cannot believe he just teensplaining me about something I experienced 30 years before he existed! How does he think she automatically knows more than me and has to explain it?
by Bananago December 7, 2020
Get the teensplaining mug.When a young and eager but inexperienced comrade condescendingly talks down to a person in the process of trying to persuade him or her of the principles and merits of scientific socialism, thereby ignoring Lenin's instruction to "patiently explain" and needlessly alienating said person.
Comrade, you should have known better than to tell the head of the feminist student association that Lena Dunham is a petty bourgeois shrew. That this is true is beside the point. Such trotsplaining does nothing to advance the interests of the world proletariat.
by Alan Doucheowitz June 7, 2017
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