Shaming or otherwiseguilting another party for not sharing the same belief or value system as yourself in an attempt to alter their opinion. This can involve haphazard labeling, or insults of the cursory nature.
James engaged in shame-splaining by calling Pete narrow-minded for his beliefs on gun control, before expressing how gun control should work and how wrong Pete was.
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Speaking quickly and without articulation and with great enthusiasm.
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Speaking to someone in a language they do not understand- with great enthusiasm.
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Enthusiastically speaking without truly communicating anything, oftentimes in reference to a political speech.
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After Mitt Romney’s televised speech I couldn’t help but feel that the whole thing had been little more than Fish-Explaining. There had been a lot of enthusiastic buzz-words but little had been actually communicated.
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My mother-in-law forgot for the moment that I did not speak any Turkish. After she finished excitedly saying whatever it was she was saying I could only ask her what all her fish-explaining had been about.
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The baby was incapable of speaking English but that didn’t stop him from enthusiastically telling anyone who would listen about the fish he was pointing at when visiting the New England Aquarium. I smiled at his gibbering antics- this was true fish-explaining.
Post-splaining- noun, gerund; when your political opinions are so brilliant, clever & flawless, posting them on all social media platforms is required so all the world can know the real truth.
When someone tells you how shit you are at something, without acknowledging you’re feelings, or the fact that you don’t care about this opinion.
It’s only Nola-splaining when the opinion is in no way whatsoever constructive or useful
Explaining something in a slightly condescending, patronizing manner, while a) assuming the person you're talking to isn't knowledgeable about the subject, b) likely believing you know more about it than you actually do, and c) thinking they must need to hear your wisdom.
Can be used as a suffix to indicate the topic being 'splained, e.g., dog-splaining, car-splaining
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"I just got a puppy and you would not believe how many people dog-splain to me how I should train it or what its breed is like. They all think they're expert animal trainers."
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Person A: "Hey man, I got a chance to look at your YouTube videos. You know, channels get more views when they have attention grabbing thumbnails. You might want to try that. Also, one way to get more engagement is to have an introduction that..."
Person B: "Dude, stop YouTube-splaining me. I run my own channel. You think I don't know about all that stuff already?"
The act of a woman excessively whining, complaining, or making issues out of seemingly very minor things and raising matters which are otherwise non-issues, often times from a privileged or entitled female point of view under the dsiguise or feminism. The issues complained about typically serve no real cause other than inflating the individual woman's sense of self-importance while insulting or complaining about men.
Bev wouldn't quit Woman-Plaining about how the grocery store clerk refused to fill her bags to the top because she's a petite female.
Sue chose to take a camping trip with all the guys then Woman-plained the entire trip about the lack of restrooms and silverware.
The ladies at the office were Woman-Plaining about unequal pay without even considering the differences in hours or job risks involved.
The book club meeting quickly devolved into a Woman-plaining session about raising kids.