Mansplaining

Mansplaining as an accusation of someone being patronizing while the accuser is choosing to be sexist themselves.

Feminists tend to use the term as a backlash while also letting out pent up frustration at males in society.

Guy: Hey did you know that the pill is known to cause...
Lady: I don't need someone mansplaining to me about female things!
Guy: Letting me know that you already know that would be fine, but since you didn't hear me out, I'll assume that you just wanted to be sexist.

by Driver4567 November 14, 2021

mansplainterrupt

Verb: When a man inserts himself into a full-blown conversation that had previously involved only women, in order to mansplain something related to the topic they're discussing. Often a reflexive reaction to discourse that would pass the Bechdel Test if it were a movie (because it doesn't involve the man who's overhearing it).

Dude, you just mansplainterrupted a League of Women Voters meeting to tell them about the history of suffrage.

by Beeeej July 6, 2020

Mansplaining

A man explaining something to a woman in a way that is patronizing because it assumes that the woman will be ignorant of the subject matter.

Woman speaking to another woman: “ I don’t want to drink too much tonight, I have to work in the morning.”

Man standing near them at the bar: “ Actually if you drink a glass of water and take an ibuprofen before you go to bed you won’t be hungover.”

Woman: “Thank you for mansplaining, but I’m less concerned with alcohol induced dehydration and more concerned with getting to bed at a decent hour.”

by Black_Well_Bex July 16, 2018

maysplaining

When some one asks you a question and you skirt around answering it until you confuse the person that asked you the question.

Theresa May in question time is asked a question by the audience and she ends up not answering the question by maysplaining about something completely different.

by Dirlos June 2, 2017

Mansplaining

When a man feels compelled to condescendingly explain something to a woman on a topic that any reasonable person could see she knows more about than he does.

"That's not what mansplaining means. Mansplaining is..." he mansplains.

by elllie_b August 26, 2018

mansplain

Quite regularly, during team meetings in front of every else, when a woman who is reporting on her own project work with which she is most experienced with and has worked in the field for over twenty years, another peer always feels the need to "complete" her sentences mid-way, talks over her, hijacks her time to shine, taking over the explanations, progress report, issue deconstruction, evaluation, or review, thinking that even though they only have one fifth of the experience, knows little to nothing of her project work in detail, they must though have the knowledge to report on the woman's work better than she can.

She (as the lead scientist): To report on my findings of the project work I have been completing for the past month,

He (as the apprentice): <interrupting> the results show... bladibla…

Her peers: rolling their eyes, internally thinking (there he goes again, mansplaining...what a narcissist!)

by misogynisttrenddisheartening April 15, 2020

mamsplaining

m'amsplaining

When a feminist or social justice warrior explains how a white man (or anyone) should act according to progressive rules.

Domique was mamsplaining to Doug that his being a white male meant that he could not offer advise in any situation and was in fact worse than Hitler.

by darkurthe January 11, 2017