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

Superior Mormon Mansplaining

When a mormon man treats not only women, but also non-mormons as if they are stupid.

When John addressed me this afternoon, his tone suggested that he was superior mormon mansplaining.

by Jubilee Sparks January 30, 2019

Mansplain

A way to attack faux sexism by using actual sexism

She said an El Camino was a truck. I told her I feel like it’s more a hybrid of a car and a truck.
She shot me for mansplaining and the woke majority called her queen

by CreativeFunnyName November 8, 2020

Mansplanation

An explanation (usually by a man to a woman) to explain why she shouldn't have found the sexist thing he just said, sexist.

"When I told him my looks shouldn't have any bearing on my ability to do my job, he told me to relax and gave a long mansplanation about how I should take being told I'm pretty as a compliment."

by unrest655321 October 15, 2015

mansplaning

when a woman is not smart enough to understand something, so a man explains it to her

woman: the wage gap shows that females are being payed less for the same job.
man: the wage gap is only showing the average pay of man and woman, it does not count for hours worked or different jobs.
woman: STOP MANSPLANING!!!

by the egalitarian May 18, 2017

Mansplaining

Explanations done (mostly by men to women) in a condescending, overconfident often inaccurate and oversimplifying manner.

In many cases done by some guy to a female expert in a field.

Female expert: Here’s an article that shows how this issue is affecting another issue
Some guy: Well, actually it’s not that simple because this issue is affecting that issue in this way as you would understand if you actually read the article and this passage:*quotes article*
Female expert: I know, I wrote the article you just quoted. Stop mansplaining my own words to me.

by Someone else from your town August 2, 2018