Meaning of mansplainy | Babel Free

Definitions

Engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining.

informal

Examples

“So, have⟳ pity on the mansplainer. His is the merely the voice of a patriarchal world eclipsed by a new one ... wait⟳, did that sound⟳ mansplainy?”

“[…] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March⟳ is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer […]”

“The nods to how women react⟳ to men stripping ranges from the inexplicable […] to the utterly mansplainy, as in the scene in which two men discuss⟳ why (they imagine⟳) women like⟳ male strippers.”

“It feels churlish — and, to be honest, at least a bit mansplainy — even to introduce⟳ the slightest hint of cold water on the growth of women’s soccer. The infusion of money is welcome⟳, no question⟳. The involvement of men’s clubs is, probably, necessary to accelerate the game’s growth. What matters most of all, of course, is the health of the structure⟳ as a whole.”

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