mansplanation

Definitions

A condescending explanation given by a male explainer to a female listener, especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it because she is a woman.

informal

Examples

“Like⟳ I said, I can see⟳ how a person can take⟳ the song as a mansplanation of an issue⟳ primarily pertaining to women, but was that Lupe’s intention?”

“English physician Samuel Farr was pretty certain women couldn't get⟳ pregnant without an orgasm. The Guardian quotes the mansplanation from his 1814 Elements of Medical Jurisprudence: "For without an excitation of lust, or the enjoyment of pleasure in the venereal act, no conception can probably take⟳ place⟳. So that if an absolute rape were to be perpetrated, it is not likely she would become⟳ pregnant."”

“Vesta's left me alone with him so he can give⟳ me some sort⟳ of Big Daddy lecture⟳. Because the thing I need⟳ right now is a mansplanation of the error of my thinking.”

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