gradsplain: when a grad student reads one or two books then feels the need to (mis)explain any and every academic concept to everyone they interact with, mostly to tell said people that they are somehow wrong about their own thoughts, opinions, and/or experiences.
Gradsplainers do not generally care even if those they interact with have superior training, experience, schooling, or degrees.
Gradsplainers do not generally care even if those they interact with have superior training, experience, schooling, or degrees.
Cindy: See, the thing is, according to my thesis and this article I just found, you are totally wrong about (insert Marxism, feminism, socialism, capitalism, ableism, racism, string theory, quantum physics, Dr. Who, etc.)
John: First, I teach this class. Second, I wrote the article you cite. Stop gradsplaining to me.
John: First, I teach this class. Second, I wrote the article you cite. Stop gradsplaining to me.
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When you have to break down the meaning of a current saying or word, so your granny can understand. You also need to say it LOUDLY!
Me: This party is lit! Granny: you lit what?? Do you need a match? Me: Let me Gransplain...This is a very exciting party. Granny: What? Me: GOOD PARTY!
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Get the Gransplain mug.Random lady: These flowers start blooming during the Pentacostal period once a year. Before bloom, it looks like praying saints, after bloom it looks like a flying dove. How amazing is God's creation!
Friend: Are they godsplaining nature? The flowers bloom when the light, temperature, and climate conditions are right.
Friend: Are they godsplaining nature? The flowers bloom when the light, temperature, and climate conditions are right.
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Glamsplaining can be humorous, snarky, or even cruel, but it tends to be brutally honest.
Glamsplaining can be humorous, snarky, or even cruel, but it tends to be brutally honest.
A: Oh. My God. You *cannot* wear those shoes with that outfit!
B: Geez! Stop glamsplaining me!
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a reality show built on glamsplaining.
B: Geez! Stop glamsplaining me!
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a reality show built on glamsplaining.
by sozh April 21, 2018
Get the glamsplaining mug.When one gay person begins to explain something pertaining to the gay community, via mansplaining method, and the recipient is well aware the topic they are trying to explain.
Scott and I were out the other night and met this guy at a bar who was gaysplaining to us about gender identity.
by Sassy Classy Deadfish June 9, 2019
Get the Gaysplaining mug.When someone not from the lgbtq community tries to explain why gay people have rights, or how they are, or anything coming from a non queer person about the queer experience.
Used in a sentence: It's like mansplaining but gaysplaining.
A gaysplainer: Gay people are just looking for attention.
A gaysplainer: Gay people are just looking for attention.
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