Mansplainin'

A man explaining things to a woman that they don't think she understands.

Cassie was mansplainin' to Tim that the tip of the flame on a fire is the hottest.

Mansplainin' by LuverGurl74 May 16, 2026

Mansplain Manipulate Manslaughter 

A joking phrase meant to be the male counterpart of gaslight gatekeep girlboss. Manslaughter is often replaced with malewife or manwhore.

Why try hard when I can mansplain manipulate manslaughter my way through everything?

Mansplain Manipulate Manslaughter by sometimesithinkandthenforget January 21, 2022

Mansplain Manipulate Manwhore 

a simple phrase that is the male counterpart of Girlboss Gaslight Gatekeep.
Both phrases are used interchangeable depending on the person, but a gender neutral option is Sovereign Stealing Sway

Bard: Guys, I don't think I can Mansplain Manipulate Manwhore us out this situation
Barbarian: Manslaughter it is then

Mansplain Manipulate Manwhore by ChaoticChaos April 4, 2023

Mannsplaining 

The gritted teeth repetition of facts from a scientist forced to contend with the myths of morons all the livelong day.

"Michael's having a bad day on Twitter; he's gonna graduate from Mannsplaining to murder pretty soon."

Mannsplaining by Recovering Pagan April 20, 2020

mansplain 

Essentially when a man assumes a woman (sometimes a man) lacks knowledge in an area where she (or he) is known to be an expert

Me reading the other definitions of "mansplain": Wow, these all sound like they were written by men who have never experienced mansplaining themselves! Now, they're trying to explain what it is. CLASSIC mansplaining!!

2nd-year law student: I cannot believe Matt just mansplained me about the difference between prosecutors and defense attornies. This dude is referencing TV shows LMAO

mansplain by shhhhhhhlj January 28, 2018

Mansplain 

When a man explains something to a woman, uninvited, about a topic she is either equally qualified or more qualified to talk on.

A male doctor explaining something to a female patient, for example, would not be mansplaining.

Examples: The guy who tried to tell Margaret Atwood about "The Handmaid's Tale", the guy who told Katie Mack, who has a PHD in Astrophysics, to "learn some science" because he thought climate change was a hoax, the man who tried to correct a woman about how to pronounce her own name correctly, an Englishman correcting a Welsh woman on her Welsh pronunciation.

See also Dunning-Kruger effect.

Look at this idiot trying to mansplain periods to women... he thinks women only have nine periods a year... wait 'til you hear his lecture on how to insert a tampon correctly!

Mansplain by Jorgs August 2, 2019

Mansplain 

When someone "explains" something to another person about a topic they are already familiar with/understand. This is typically done in a condescending manner under the pretense that the speaker knows more about the topic than who they are speaking to, i.e. they are subordinate.

1) Explaining the rules of poker to a poker dealer
2)Repeating a point back to someone in your own way, even if they just said the same thing
3)Telling a person that you know more about something because of blank, even though they are a professional/have a degree in the field that you do not have

Sidenote: it is okay to know a lot about a topic and make this known in conversation, but assuming that you know more than someone else, not accepting if you are wrong, not accepting that they may simply be more knowledgeable, and/or doing so in a condescending manner means that you are mansplaining.

Note: this definition and examples were built together by both a man and a woman

Mansplain by pseudonymsaredumbquitaskingme May 28, 2018