This is a type of ablesplaining where doctors and other healthcare workers patronize, infantilize and disregard lived experience by minimizing self-reports of pain, often justifying it through medical hearsay, misogyny, transphobia, fatphobia, and racism even though they've never experienced any similar pain themselves, or they believe everyone's pain is the same as their own.
Doctor: "It's normal to experience some discomfort…" Patient: "Quit painsplaining; that was not just discomfort. That was a 9 out of 10 — almost the worst pain I've ever felt!"
by SharedMoon June 25, 2024
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I was trying to describe how bad my period felt but then dumbfuck Jerry paulsplained, saying I shouldn't feel any pain because periods are just papercuts that take a while to clot.
I wanted to get the HPV vaccine, but my dickhole dad paulsplained that it wasn't necessary and I'd get autism if I got it anyhow.
I was talking to my friend at work, Sarah, about how prevalent rape is and our colleague, Terry the Terrible, came over and did some paulsplaining. He said we should just dress more appropriately or start carrying a gun if we didn't want to be raped.
I wanted to get the HPV vaccine, but my dickhole dad paulsplained that it wasn't necessary and I'd get autism if I got it anyhow.
I was talking to my friend at work, Sarah, about how prevalent rape is and our colleague, Terry the Terrible, came over and did some paulsplaining. He said we should just dress more appropriately or start carrying a gun if we didn't want to be raped.
by melinoff March 28, 2019
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by WhoDat1323 January 14, 2022
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by Pipefitting101 September 20, 2022
Get the Philsplaining mug.Common phenomenon, similar to "mansplaining," except when done by a pig (police officer) trying to explain away their bad and usually racist behavior.
Cop enters home and arrests black homeowner (in his own home). Cop later realizes his mistake and tries to explain away his racist behavior by saying that said homeowner was acting suspiciously.
Johhny: "There he goes pigsplaining away his racist actions."
Johhny: "There he goes pigsplaining away his racist actions."
by Deku1312 March 6, 2020
Get the Pigsplaining mug.The art of condescending when explaining something trival to someone while simultaneously making it up due to a complete lack of knowledge on the subject. Paulsplaining is the art of dogmaticly sticking to a point of view in spite of apposing aguements which seem to be correct.
No chance of getting your point across this fucker is paulsplaining, you might as well go and debate the wind.
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