Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. colloquial Explaining (something) in a condescending or self-righteous manner, especially as a man to a woman.
Etymologies
- Blend of man and explaining. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You may be a mansplainer if you continue to come back to a thread about mansplaining examples to whine about how men encounter frustrating scenarios with females after you've been specifically told to take it to another thread. you might be a fucking douchebag if you freak out over the idea of mansplaining without realizing the time honored tradition of dismissing women talking as being some irrelevant annoyance.”
“Part of the problem is that there's two ways to define a phenomenon like "mansplaining" or”
“Also, thank you for redefining "mansplaining" for everyone here.”
“I have a husband who is, shall we say, an offshoot of "mansplaining".”
“One can criticise Andrea Dworkin's theories without "mansplaining".”
“mansplaining" at you, and how is that different than when meanie bloggers make fun of trolls for being stupid?”
“Dude Rock ", though of course, the butt hurtness in this instance has nothing to do with the comically elevated levels of it that erupted with" mansplaining "was invented, or the alarming and sad way butt hurtness erupts in feminist blog posts about rape that attract irate men demanding, demanding, that the feminist tell them how much coercion they get away with before it's officially rape.”
“Smash-cut flashback to Armey mansplaining this to Weigel in real time.”
The Huffington Post: GOP Not Sweating Breaking Their Budget-Cutting Promise
“David Brooks thinks that the GOP will be more willing to give ground on their locked-in-stone philosophies over tax increases, even though Pat Toomey is sitting right there, mansplaining how he will actually cling to every hidebound idea his party has.”
“Anyway, he says that he was being "civil" and "straight" with the teacher-lady at the town hall, and all he was doing was mansplaining that if she didn't like not getting the compensation she was entitled to after probably being told by the school district that she had to keep taking classes and receiving newer accreditation, then she could stop doing the job.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mansplaining’.
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Words I wish I didn't know
I'll be listing items from my personal collection, but feel free to add whatever you like--I'm sure it will be helpful to know which things I won't want to know.
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EN - US buzzwords of 2012
As seen on http://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wordroutes/the-year-in-words-2012-edition/
47 percent, apology tour, arithmetic, clown question, doxing, Eastwooding, etch a sketch, fiscal cliff, frackademia, Frankenstorm, Gangnam style, ganjapreneur and 20 more...
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Aftercrimes, Geoslavery, and Thermoge...
all the words I included in this TED book.
afforestation, aftercrimes, anthrozoology, biocide, biogas, biological passport, biomining, biophilia, bioprospect, biosimilar, bisphenol A, black children and 145 more...
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