Assplaining 

1. When a "well-meaning" asshole of any gender bestows unsolicted and obvious (or obviously stupid) advice.

2. A caring act of condescension.

Elder: You know, if you stopped going to Starbucks, you could pay off your student loans.

Junior: I don't need you assplaining debt management to me.

Assplaining by Ameraliyan_Writer January 4, 2023

assplaining 

What a wife or girlfriend does when her husband comes home from work. Including feeding him dinner, spreading her ass, and putting the children to bed.

Something every good wife does.

My friend asked me where my wife is.

I said "She's assplaining".

assplaining by Ironatriot69420 February 11, 2021

ma'amsplaining 

Counterpoint to mansplaining. When a woman explains something to a man as if he were her special needs child. Usually done in a condescending and demeaning manner.

Thanks for ma'amsplaining to me on how to properly stock a shelf, Angela, but I've been working in the auto parts business for 15 years.

ma'amsplaining by Short Bus Sean March 17, 2019

agesplaining 

Like mansplaining, this occurs when someone who is older or grew up in a different time/generation tries to explain something without realizing that the younger person they are talking to knows more on that topic than they do.

Valid for use when the person perceives themself as being older whether they actually are or not and still explains in the same condescending fashion.

Also used for when the elder explains something that no longer is culturally valid in our society, such as the means for a student in the US to be able to be debt-free when graduating. Often the agesplained statement comes after "when I was your age."

Augustus was agesplaining saving for retirement, little did he know that I've had a retirement account since my 18th birthday, longer than he claims to have started saving.

agesplaining by Julyaugustusc May 12, 2017

aisplaining 

When artificial intelligence (AI) explains something to a person in a patronizing tone as if the person is too incompetent and illogical to understand.

ChatGPT was aisplaining it as if I had never heard of it before.

aisplaining by Disynthegration October 10, 2023

AIsplaining 

The AI explanation of something. Where AI takes your input and regurgitates it back to you in generic terminology, insisting that "The Real Tuth Is" to demonstrate more knowledge about your area of expertise than you have.

- When someone uses AI-generated responses to comment on your social media content. Pasting your post into their preferred GenAI tools, then copying the answer straight into the comments of your post.

- Mansplaining 2.0

AIsplaining this article back to me isn't a good look for you.

Did you just AIsplain my expert topic back to me, and leave the em dash in?!

AIsplaining by Spnash June 18, 2025

AIsplaining

A blend of AI + explaining, inspired by mansplaining: the act of confidently explaining, correcting, or talking over someone using information from artificial intelligence, often while dismissing that person’s actual experience, expertise, or knowledge.

He kept cutting her off and AIsplaining to her because he had already asked AI and assumed that meant he knew better.

AIsplaining by kristinawilde October 6, 2026