Civsplaining (blend word ‘civvy’ & informal form splaining of gerund ‘explaining’) is pejorative term meaning "(of a civ) to comment on or explain something to #squaddie in condescending, overconfident, often inaccurate or oversimplified manner"
I’m not #civsplaining you thick squaddie twat, I’m giving you guidance based on my considerablemilitaryknowledge gleamed from Commando comics & years of mucking thick military types, like MrSnaplegs, around.
He doesn't ride a bike but said, in true 'carsplaining' fashion; that 'all cyclists need to do to be safe on the roads and avoid any 'accidents' is to follow the Highway Code'.
An example of copsplaining is: When you are doing nothing wrong, they are committing an unlawful act against your will, you lecture them about what the law really is, and they give you a friendly command about being safe so they can bullshit about what they were doing to you in the first place.
1. explaining things like you would to your cat(s)./ explaining things to your cat, as if it were human.
2. Talking to other human beings like you would to your cat(s)
3. Explaining everything by the way it relates to cats.
4. Rationalizing things according to how a cat would do it.
5. Internet.
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"Mr.MeowMeow how many times do i have to keep catsplaining to you... mommy's guest is not your scratch tree. It hurts Mr.Friend when you scratch him."
"I understand that upsets you, But let me catsplain something to you. Once my cat is bothered by that too. She usually attacks it and bites it's head off. Maybe you should try it too?"
When someone with similar or less knowledge and qualifications on a topic tries to explain something YOU know more or just as much about. All without being asked too or while repeating something you've already said ,sometimes using more complicatedterminology to seem superior in a group of others.
|Example 1|Gina: Martha was consplaining to the new hire how to use Microsoft excel...
Sam: But she doesn't even know how to use it??!!
|Example 2| Lee: I was talking to this girl I met about jojos bizarre adventure when this dude came up and started consplaining to her about Diamond is Unbreakable. She embraced the hell out of him when she started asking about speed wagon and he had no idea what she was talking about.
Not unlike mansplaining, Cisplaining is the act of a cisgender person explaining a transgenderone of a subject the latter is more knowledgeable in. The word is usually used to describe a situation in which the cis explains the trans of a trans-related subject or about a transgender experience, which the cisgender person, being cisgender, has never experienced.
Trans: "I think casting Scarlett Johansson to a role of a trans man is a very bad representation because-"
Cis: "Oh, nonsense! Johansson is a great actress, she will be a wonderful representation. So what if she is a woman?"
Trans: "That, right there, was the exact definition of cisplaining."