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Manplaining

Man(com)pliaing: When a woman accuses a man who's made a valid point of "mansplaining" to deflect the loss of an argument.
See also: Oversensitive
When Dr. David told his patient Susan, that he would not prescribe her antibiotics for her cold, as antibiotics have no effect on viruses, she began manplaining, and accused him of being condecending and sexist for simply stating a fact.
Manplaining by Northerly March 20, 2020
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Maxplaining

Max Verstappen explaining things to his fellow drivers
Ahh there goes there's Max Maxplaining Charles again!
Maxplaining by Omgjustgivemeanyname September 22, 2022

Mannsplaining 

The gritted teeth repetition of facts from a scientist forced to contend with the myths of morons all the livelong day.
"Michael's having a bad day on Twitter; he's gonna graduate from Mannsplaining to murder pretty soon."

Maxsplaining 

When you trap your life long formula one rival in order to explain every little detail about your race or quali session to them without a chance of escape.

Not to be confused with Mansplaining, while similar, Maxsplaining presents clear homoerotic undertones and heart eyes from both parties involved.
person 1: where's Charles?
person 2: oh, Max got him, he already started the maxsplaining
person 1: damn, that's a shame, there's no saving him now...
Maxsplaining by not-my-name October 11, 2022

Meta-Mansplaining 

When frustrated manly men go and flood the Urban Dictionary with their definitions of the word Mansplaining, because they know it better than the feminists, actually.
Greg is so pissed off because his professor didn't want to hear him explain her area of expertise to her in his opinion, so he went meta-mansplaining in UD and invited all his friends too. (See mansplaining )
Meta-Mansplaining by Chnuma September 7, 2017

Mansplaining 

When a man explains something to a woman in a patronizing tone as if the woman is too emotional and illogical to understand.
"She got all pissed at me for no reason!" cried Ira, "Accusing me of mansplaining."
Aziz shook his head. "Women! Right?"
Mansplaining by Babydoll75 March 6, 2019

Mansplaining 

When unsolicited advice or direction is given to a woman by a man in a condescending manner. The reasons typically being, the man does not believe the woman is capable of completing the task independently and must need guidance.
"You're not doing that how I would do it so I'm going to bother you with my directions and opinions even though I am in no way a superior and you did not ask for clarification. There is no way you are capable of doing this by yourself and must be ignorant so you have to rely on my constant guidance."

"uh, I think I got it.. thanks."
Mansplaining
Mansplaining by tybkylie December 14, 2018