When a young person explains something obvious to a GenXer because they don’t understand sarcasm and assume everyone over 30 is ignorant.
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Women 1: stop gangsplaining to me, I can’t hear what either of you are saying when you talk at the same time
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Women 1: stop gangsplaining to me, I can’t hear what either of you are saying when you talk at the same time
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A 25 year old kid in a shop tried to gensplain to me all about vinyl records and how they related to the length of radio singles 'back in the 70s' the other day; she must have missed the fact I'm over 50 and actually lived through it, or else thought I was senile.
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Woman gynsplaining: You know postpartum depression can be a very serious problem that goes unrecognized blah blah blah.
Man: I'm a psychiatrist with a specialty in perinatal mood disorders.
Man: I'm a psychiatrist with a specialty in perinatal mood disorders.
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"Sorry, allow me to Genxplain... we didn't have camgirls when we were young. We had to call 1-900 lines to have phone sex."
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Randy didn't know anything about Drows, so Dustin geeksplained it to him. Now he knows more than he'll ever need to about the Underdark.
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