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femsplaining 

Femsplaining
fem•splain•ing — noun

The act of a woman — typically, of the feminist variety — to mistakenly believe she knows more than a man and about a man’s actions, then attempts to explain her "knowledge" via word-vomit.
I endured Megan femsplaining about how men sit on the subway train, then she femsplained some more about how she assumes men feel. feminist misandry femsplaining mansplaining feminism masculinity manspreading
femsplaining by RubixCubix May 18, 2016

dumbsplaining 

Dumbsplaining

(mænspleɪnɪŋ)

v

1. The act of ironically revealing one's state of complete mental retardation by attempting to invoke one of a myriad of "splaining" terms such as "mansplaining" or "whitesplaining" in order to shut down an argument.
Seamus PatrickBarrett - oh sorry didn't mean to bust you out for you d--- riding using profanity. I guess wise master typo hunters don't use the naughty words. I can't never be so good at words as you.😣 again, thank you for your magnificent whitesplaining.

Justin Von Striver - I'm going to coin the term #dumbsplaining in your honor, Seamus.
dumbsplaining by Juangalt June 1, 2017

femsplaining 

The tendency of some women to mistakenly believe that they automatically know more about any given topic than a man does and who, consequently, proceeds to explain to him, correctly or not, things that he already knows.
Man A: When she started femsplaining to me what it really meant to be a man in the 21st century, I got up and left.

Man B: Really, what else could you do?
femsplaining by ThatGuyYouKnow14 January 6, 2014

Femsplaining 

When a woman attempts to prove superiority over a man by vomiting up rhetorical questions that don't actually mean anything and usually have no real basis in fact.
I hate when women start femsplaining at me. It really ruins my mood.
Femsplaining by Tiny Barbarian January 3, 2017

femsplaining 

When a "feminist" proceeds to explain to you that you are mansplaining.
I was just trying to have a civil discourse with her, when that tumblrina called me a mansplainer! I told her I was offended by her femsplaining to me that I am a mansplainer
femsplaining by fryether July 2, 2016

devsplaining 

When a software developer explains why the application (formally known as, 'teh codes') acts in a certain way that is surprising to the non-technical user.

Often the engineer will accidentally come off as arrogant or boorish. This may be to compensate for the fact they are trying to pass off a bug as intended behavior.... or that they are just as confused by this behavior as the end-user.

parallel to mansplaining or mansplain
Kenneth the brogrammer was devsplaining why the calendar picker used EDT vs. EST, even though he really had no idea there was a difference...
devsplaining by Marojejian October 7, 2015