Womansplaining 

1. Lying whilst concurrently making no rational sense.
eg "I said I graduated but I was exaggerating"
2. Talking effusively on a subject the speaker has no knowledge of
eg "The gender wage gap is.."
3. Assembling a random jumble of words with the sole goal being a denial of any accountability.
eg "So and like anyway, um yeah like, I don't think I was like even there that day, but like, if I was I wouldn't even like, plus you said like..."

4. Also see "Gaslighting"

Examples of "Womansplaining"

1. "I said I graduated but I was exaggerating"
2. "The gender wage gap is.."
3. "So and like anyway, um yeah like, I don't think I was like even there that day, but like, if I was I wouldn't even like, plus you said like..."

Womansplaining by Fevolenko March 13, 2022

Womansplaining 

A woman's habit of rationalizing the most stupid and illogical things ad nauseum in order to appear smart or empathetic. Also used to explain away their own bullshit by deflecting it and making it seem like there's something wrong with you

Jackie has been womasplaining how setting rat traps is mean despite the fact that rats spread disease for the last three hours.

Ivette has been womansplaining how it was rude of me to ask her to take her call in the other room instead of sitting 3 inches from me while I'm watching this movie that has been on for 45 minutes - because she was "talking low"

Womansplaining by LBOH April 14, 2022

Womansplaining 

When your talking and I’m not listening

“Shit was that a question? She was womansplaining again”

Womansplaining by Jimmy Nappo June 14, 2023

Womansplaining 

a non-word erroneously used as gendered equivalent to 'mansplaining' for a condescending woman.

A gendered word with a corresponding impact to 'mansplaining' does not exist.

MANSPLAINING contains an element that is often overlooked: It's the systemic cultural conviction embedded in societies that women cannot truly be competent, cannot be more competent than a man, and that her opinion carries less value.

Mansplaining is anchored in sexism.

It's part of the male entitlement that a man who has little to no expertise but a lot of 'opinion', often enough talks nonsense (sharing factually incorrect non-proven information), will be and IS taken seriously. Why? Because that has been the rule for centuries.

In 'WOMANSPLAINING' i.e. women being condescending to men, the element of power is missing:

Even though she condescends to him, neither he nor those in his environment will doubt his competence. Her condescension has no impact besides the personal.
With mansplaining, that's different as others are likely to buy-in and fundamentally question the woman's competence.

Thus, just like in racism, white people can and do experience discrimination but not racism because the systemic power element is missing for them, men can and do experience condescension from women but not 'womansplaining' because the repercussions on the perception of their competence is absent for men.

She was womansplaining to me.

No: She was condescending. I understand how annoying that is, but it is really not the same thing as mansplaining.

Womansplaining by enriches alliterating November 7, 2024

Womansplaining 

When a woman expects you to know what she wants without explaining it to you.

Man: What do you want to eat for dinner?
Woman: You should know
She wont stop womansplaining

Womansplaining by Donkey V January 30, 2024

Womansplaining 

the explanation of something by a woman, typically to a man, in a manner that completely derives from the topic at hand. Often substantiated with information that has nothing to do with the current explanation, to the point where neither party is sure of what the original topic of conversation was.

plural: womansplainers
noun: womansplaining

"You know Sean, by the time we were done arguing, neither of us even knew what the whole debacle was about."

Sean: Classic case of womansplaining mate!

Womansplaining by obskewrity February 21, 2024

Womansplaining 

Womansplaining is the tendency of women to respond to an argument by offering a spiritual, psychological, or esoteric interpretation of the discussant’s motives or background, even when such analysis is not requested.

Womansplaining
Jack: Extremely provocative outfits should be banned in schools.
Linda: You must have grown up in a very unloving home to say something like that.

Womansplaining by GreekGirlPosts June 17, 2025