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mansplaining

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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Manplain

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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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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Maamsplaining

Verb: (of a woman), to explain something to someone, typically a man, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing
Maamsplaining happens 100 times more often than mansplaining.
by Billy Goldtsein July 25, 2017
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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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mansploring

When a man goes to check on something even though you (a woman) have already checked and told him what the situation is.
Woman: "darling, they don't have guiness on tap, I asked at the bar."
Man: "Oh right, I'm just gonna go check.."
Woman (to friend): "there he goes, mansploring as usual!"

Mansplaining
by Kalexandra March 2, 2018
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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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