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man-splaining

A term a woman uses when she feels that she is losing an argument to a man and takes the cowardly route of the victim card.
Her: What, those girl-power memes I post every day are a way of my compensating for the lack of confidence I have in myself? Why don't you shut up and quit man-splaining it to me?
man-splaining by JustnIst October 11, 2020
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Man-splaining

The male art of explaining a concept in such basic terms that even a woman could understand it.
So I was man-splaining to my wife that toothpaste is best squeezed from the bottom and not from the middle of the tube.

Man-on-Man-Splaining 

When you've run out of women to mansplain to, so you resort to men instead.
"Did you happen to attend last night's amateur radio club meeting?" "Yes, a lot of man-on-man-splaining."
Man-on-Man-Splaining by addat November 13, 2023

mansplaning 

when a woman is not smart enough to understand something, so a man explains it to her
woman: the wage gap shows that females are being payed less for the same job.
man: the wage gap is only showing the average pay of man and woman, it does not count for hours worked or different jobs.
woman: STOP MANSPLANING!!!

Mansplaning 

The term used by a feminist looking to find a reason to dislike all men.
That other debater only won because he was mansplaning
Mansplaning by C001 guy101 December 14, 2019

Mansplaning 

When a man starts to explain something to a woman that she already knows and is therefore unnecessary
When a guy comes up to the girl at the gym doing weights and tries to explain what she should do. While she’s already doing it, that’s “mansplaning”