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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