When you ask a child (typically your own) a question about something in the current culture that you don’t understand or know, typically: the name of a song, what show a character was from, or the name of a meme and they reply with a long winded answer that often includes the history of the creator, why they created it and/or social media platform of origin along with it’s subsequent platform postings and variants.
This is usually done in a condescending tone and may include an eye roll, over the top hand gestures and visual aids.
This is usually done in a condescending tone and may include an eye roll, over the top hand gestures and visual aids.
My daughter childsplained the entire Steven Universe show, characters, and plot to me as though I had never seen it after I asked her the name of the theme song when I heard it play in a TikTok because I had forgotten the name of it .
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When a man is working on a project and a woman, more specifically their significant other comes over and starts asking stupid questions that shouldnt need to be explained.
I was changing the oil in my truck when my girlfriend came out and start asking what I was doing. So I told her I dont have time to chicksplain this stuff right now, so leave me the hell alone.
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James was arguing for abortion, that it should be legal even after a period of 6 months. Well its not a life until it comes out, James explained. "That nibba James just Hildsplained me."
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