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When a male identifying person spends way too much time explaining something that is simple, or that is uninteresting to anyone (usually female identifying); also when a male spends way too much time explaining something to a female, who knows more about the subject than the male, because of the deeply embedded assumption that men "know more" than women
(Friend): How was your date?
(Straight Cis Woman): Oh, it was ok. He spent about 40 minutes mansplaining menustration to me.
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To explain (by a man) to a woman on some topic or subject in a condescending way.
He was mansplaining the surgical technique to his girlfriend.
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(for a man) to explain something to a woman in the area of her own expertise.
Due to Rebecca Solnit, author of "Men Explain Things To Me."
"I'm quite familiar with turbine design requirements; please don't mansplain."
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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 )
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When a man explains a subject to a woman when she is already knowledgeable in said subject but the man feels he needs to explain because she's a woman and doesn't really understand
I was at the hospital today when a man started mansplaining the nervous system to me. I have a doctorate in neuroscience.
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A verbal tool, generally used by men, to speak over a woman, based on the assumption that he knows better than her. This assumption is generally because she is a woman. Note that the term is especially applicable when the man is wrong anyway.
Man: Listen, do you know the difference between a screw and a nail? Here, I can show you.
Woman: Dude, I own this hardware store. Please stop mansplaining to me.
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A term used to describe an exaggerated definition of a simple idea given by a man to woman if he feels that she is not educated enough or would not understand the meaning of said word. The idea is generally something that the woman in very familiar with.
Man: *explains how breastfeeding works to a breastfeeding mother*
Woman: Stop mansplaining. I think I would know how breastfeeding works.
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