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.
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.
by GreekGirlPosts June 17, 2025
Get the Womansplainingmug. Him: In chemistry there have been examples of dry chemicals, or chemicals that are in liquid state but not wet. lava is amongst these, therefore lava is not wet.
Her: QUIT MANSPLAINIG ME
Him: Quit Womansplaining me
Her: QUIT MANSPLAINIG ME
Him: Quit Womansplaining me
by Aiedale December 1, 2020
Get the Womansplainingmug. by Penny Leigh August 7, 2024
Get the Womansplainmug. When your girlfriend, fiancée, wife, woman try’s to make you understand what she previously said by saying the exact same thing but louder
by Enyar420 February 2, 2022
Get the Womansplainingmug. Womansplaining
When a woman overconfidently explain to a man how he should act in the world, elaborate emotions or behave with other women, without actually knowing much about how men's everyday experience.
Womansplaining involves mostly fields that have been traditionally female, such as social relationships management, emotions, and it often uses basic psychological words to add credibility.
It derives from the central position women's opinions assumed after feminism, and it is stressed by the importance given by media to these.
Womansplaining is more difficult to detect than mansplaining, because many men undergoing womansplaining are self-conscious and they do not protest against this patronizing attitude. These men give great importance to the woman's explanation, trying to learn something they think they cannot figure out themselves, especially when it comes to "how to get women to like them" or "how to be a proper man".
When a woman overconfidently explain to a man how he should act in the world, elaborate emotions or behave with other women, without actually knowing much about how men's everyday experience.
Womansplaining involves mostly fields that have been traditionally female, such as social relationships management, emotions, and it often uses basic psychological words to add credibility.
It derives from the central position women's opinions assumed after feminism, and it is stressed by the importance given by media to these.
Womansplaining is more difficult to detect than mansplaining, because many men undergoing womansplaining are self-conscious and they do not protest against this patronizing attitude. These men give great importance to the woman's explanation, trying to learn something they think they cannot figure out themselves, especially when it comes to "how to get women to like them" or "how to be a proper man".
A: I heard her womansplaining to Jake how to ask Maddy out on a date.
B: And what did she say?
A: You know... usual stuff... "You gotta be confident you gotta be sweet" and bla bla...
B: And what did she say?
A: You know... usual stuff... "You gotta be confident you gotta be sweet" and bla bla...
by Matteo Moraschini December 27, 2018
Get the Womansplainingmug. 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.
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.
No: She was condescending. I understand how annoying that is, but it is really not the same thing as mansplaining.
by enriches alliterating November 7, 2024
Get the Womansplainingmug. The act of a female correcting a male while being blatantly wrong. Not to be confused with Mansplaining. The act of a male asserting proper correction over a female, who is statistically more likely to be wrong on a subject.
Man: Egypt has been in player in the global economy for several thousands of years.
Female: Centuries, actually.
Male: Yea so several thousands of years is actually longer than centuries. Quit Womansplaining
Female: Centuries, actually.
Male: Yea so several thousands of years is actually longer than centuries. Quit Womansplaining
by Deplorable222 January 7, 2022
Get the Womansplainingmug.