Mansplain

When someone "explains" something to another person about a topic they are already familiar with/understand. This is typically done in a condescending manner under the pretense that the speaker knows more about the topic than who they are speaking to, i.e. they are subordinate.

1) Explaining the rules of poker to a poker dealer
2)Repeating a point back to someone in your own way, even if they just said the same thing
3)Telling a person that you know more about something because of blank, even though they are a professional/have a degree in the field that you do not have

Sidenote: it is okay to know a lot about a topic and make this known in conversation, but assuming that you know more than someone else, not accepting if you are wrong, not accepting that they may simply be more knowledgeable, and/or doing so in a condescending manner means that you are mansplaining.

Note: this definition and examples were built together by both a man and a woman

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mansplain

Quite regularly, during team meetings in front of every else, when a woman who is reporting on her own project work with which she is most experienced with and has worked in the field for over twenty years, another peer always feels the need to "complete" her sentences mid-way, talks over her, hijacks her time to shine, taking over the explanations, progress report, issue deconstruction, evaluation, or review, thinking that even though they only have one fifth of the experience, knows little to nothing of her project work in detail, they must though have the knowledge to report on the woman's work better than she can.

She (as the lead scientist): To report on my findings of the project work I have been completing for the past month,

He (as the apprentice): <interrupting> the results show... bladibla…

Her peers: rolling their eyes, internally thinking (there he goes again, mansplaining...what a narcissist!)

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Mansplain

A way to attack faux sexism by using actual sexism

She said an El Camino was a truck. I told her I feel like it’s more a hybrid of a car and a truck.
She shot me for mansplaining and the woke majority called her queen

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mansplain

To mansplain is for a man to talk to a woman in a condescending tone that implies the man thinks of himself as smarter or superior in some way to the woman which he is not. Some people will use this term unnecessarily when a point they made has been proven incorrect and they have nothing else to say, but this is not, in fact, the correct use of the word. It is only correct to say a man is mansplaining if they have interrupted a woman or is explaining something to her which she did not ask him to explain or she has more experience on. An argument is often not a correct time to use the term “mansplain”

How “mansplain” should be used in a sentence:

Female Doctor: “Kyle, I have been working as a doctor for fifteen years, I didn't ask you to mansplain to me how the digestive system works.”

How “mansplain” should not be used in a sentence:

Man winning an argument: “This is how feminism becomes a thing that is mocked and ridiculed in our society. Don’t let this happen and please use words correctl-”

Woman, losing the argument: “Ugh, don’t be such a sexist. I didn’t ask you to mansplain it to me”

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mansplaining

A word that sexist women use to shame a man when they have projected their misandry against men onto him after he offers them some useful advice or information without even taking his or her gender into consideration.

Women posts on Facebook: "I'm looking for research on why there is widespread gluten intolerance in North America and not so much in Europe".
Man responds: "I've heard that it is because the bread is commonly fermented in Europe and commonly unfermented in North America. Also, I know a great bakery where you can buy fermented bread..."
Women responds: "I DIDN'T FUCKING ASK YOU FOR ADVICE!!! STOP FUCKING MANSPLAINING TO ME!!! WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS ALSO SIMILAR TO WHITESPLAINING!!!"
Man thinks "wtf?"

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mansplaining

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

On the quiz show Jeopardy, the answer to the question "What is mansplaining?" was "This 21st century word happens when a male patronizingly tells a female about a topic she already understands.

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Mansplain

A stupid term that "Feminists" use when they feel minorly threatened or when they feel the tiniest bit of aggression, or to hide the fact that they're a douchebag. women may use this term when you talk in a slightly condescending attitude, even jokingly, they explain this as "Thinking that you're better or smarter than them because they're women. no, this is not the case. i'm just trying to help you, whether you need it or not. and that's how i talk to everybody, whether you were a man, woman, the emperor of the Persian empire, i don't care.

Markus: hey Mary did you hear what our president did this time?
Marian: Which president?
Markus: who else? isn't it obvious?
Marian: STOP MANSPLAINING YOU MISOGYNISTIC ASSHOLE!
Markus: MY disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

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