when a woman is not smart enough to understand something, so a man explains it to her
woman: the wage gap shows that females are being payed less for the same job.
man: the wage gap is only showing the average pay of man and woman, it does not count for hours worked or different jobs.
woman: STOP MANSPLANING!!!
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Men's attempt to define women's reality without understanding women's lived experience.
see all men's definitions of mansplain, mansplaining mansplanation
really, men are trying to explain this? for whom?
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An explanation (usually by a man to a woman) to explain why she shouldn't have found the sexist thing he just said, sexist.
"When I told him my looks shouldn't have any bearing on my ability to do my job, he told me to relax and gave a long mansplanation about how I should take being told I'm pretty as a compliment."
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The term used by a feminist looking to find a reason to dislike all men.
That other debater only won because he was mansplaning
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When a man starts to explain something to a woman that she already knows and is therefore unnecessary
When a guy comes up to the girl at the gym doing weights and tries to explain what she should do. While sheβs already doing it, thatβs βmansplaningβ
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a term used when a feminist is upset at some poor guy who just wanted to have an opinion...
most commonly used when the feminist goes back to talk with her friends. Or in other terms "STOP MANSPLANING!!!"
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Men as a whole who feel it necessary to explain things to women they do not understand themselves but think that they do just because they are men. Not to be confused with slut nation.
Damn, I just can't stand the mansplanation nation.
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