Mansplaining

The act of a man explaining something he may not really know to a woman who does, due to an assumption or expectation that knowledge is somehow inherent in the male condition, paralleling a void of knowledge waiting to be filled in the female condition.

Man: There are fascinating research developments in paleotherapy these days.

Wiman: why, yes, I'm actually the...

Man: it's like this, the researchers have learned that...yadda, yadda, yadda....and then they...,

Woman ( finally grabbing the mic after he's been talking nonstop for 10 minutes): I know. I have been the lead scientist the research team for eight years.

In this situation, the man is mansplaining because he does not know as much about the topic as the woman but he speaks authoritatively on it and talks over her attempts to correct him and to tell him she doesn't need the explanation.

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