aka fact-checking - the act of explaining how unwoke and ignorant someone is when they point out obvious issues, stupidity, and hypocrisy of progressive ideals.
Someone posted an article demsplaining the picture I posted of a gas generator charging an electric car.
by unwoke-wornout November 15, 2021
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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.
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
by RubixCubix May 18, 2016
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Dumbsplaining
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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.
(mænspleɪnɪŋ)
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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.
Justin Von Striver - I'm going to coin the term #dumbsplaining in your honor, Seamus.
by Juangalt June 1, 2017
Get the dumbsplaining mug.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?
Man B: Really, what else could you do?
by ThatGuyYouKnow14 January 6, 2014
Get the femsplaining mug.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.
by Tiny Barbarian January 3, 2017
Get the Femsplaining mug.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
by fryether July 2, 2016
Get the femsplaining mug.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.
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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...
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