Vebalsplaining

The act of explaining something to someone in a condescending, overconfident manner that assumes they couldn't possibly know about it, regardless of their actual expertise or experience. Unlike mansplaining, which specifically involves a man explaining to a woman, vebalsplaining is the gender-neutral version—anyone can do it to anyone, as long as they're being patronizing and wrong. It's what happens when your coworker explains your own job to you, when a stranger on the internet explains your lived experience to you, or when someone interrupts your story about your vacation to tell you what the place you just visited was "really like." Vebalsplaining thrives on confidence, ignorance, and the speaker's complete inability to read the room.

Example: "At the party, a guy who had never owned a pet spent twenty minutes vebalsplaining to me about why my dog's behavior meant he was unhappy. My dog was literally sleeping, dreaming, and occasionally twitching with joy. But sure, random stranger, tell me more about how my pet of eight years is secretly miserable because you watched a YouTube video once."

Vebalsplaining by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 15, 2026

vegansplaining

A term used for when vegans tell you how “good” they feel since they’ve gone vegan and continue to try and convert you and shame you for eating meat.

Yeah that yuppie was totally vegansplaining

vegansplaining by hehe66566 October 14, 2017

Vegansplaining

When a vegan is so unable to just laugh something off they feel the need to insert an "um actually" or "sorry sweety" before making a fool of themselves.

not knowing what a word means isn't exactly a joke. Saying "that's not what that word means" isn't exactly "vegansplaining." If op were wrong about any other term no one would be getting defensive about it but y'all are so insecure about your own moral choices that you can't help but go on the attack every time you see the v-word

Vegansplaining by Checkitincheckitout January 25, 2020