Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Mansplaining" in English language version.
[A] man's condescending explanation to a female audience[.]
Damon, however, didn't really get it, and descends into some mansplaining I hate to say came from someone I enjoy so much as an actor and filmmaker.
This explaining, she writes, 'keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence.'
[T]o explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner, typically to a woman already knowledgeable about the topic[.]
The possibilities are seeming endless on the -splain front. This gives Dictionary.com reason to believe that -splain is not just a temporary fad, but rather a stable new addition to English along with its libfix cousins like -gate, -pocalypse, and -zilla.
Goysplaining is an outgrowth of people thinking that they know a lot about Judaism. […] The people who goysplain think that because they went to the trouble of reading an article, watching a documentary, or Googling something, they now understand an entire faith and should be congratulated for it.
The two of them will spend the fall trying to mansplain their way to the White House, shunning the charisma-based campaign Obama tried in 2008 in favor of right-sounding if vague platitudes about getting the economy back on track[.]
There was sloppy slapstick and torrents of mansplaining.
More extreme versions of our situation exist in, for example, those Middle Eastern countries where women's testimony has no legal standing; so that a woman can't testify that she was raped without a male witness to counter the male rapist.
[S]ome men explain things to women with condescension, frequently ignoring the reality that the women may already understand whatever is being explained (in many cases, better than do the men).
The term, which caught fire in the late-'00s feminist blogosphere, describes a particularly irritating form of sexist micro-aggression: namely, a man explaining a topic of conversation to a woman who a) has already demonstrated adequate knowledge of that topic; b) could reasonably be presumed to know about that topic; and/or c) could reasonably be presumed to know much more about that topic than he does, because she is an expert in the field.
Every woman knows what I mean.
To suggest that men are more qualified for the designation than women is not only sexist but almost as tone deaf as categorizing everything that a man says as mansplaining. So maybe this will be the year we start to phase it out.
It's what occurs when a man talks condescendingly to someone (especially a woman) about something he has incomplete knowledge of, with the mistaken assumption that he knows more about it than the person he's talking to does.
'You don't have to use the word "mansplaining," because it is kind of divisive and implies the person is sexist. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't and they're just unaware and unintentionally saying something that offends,' Huang said. 'It's a little offensive to say this is only something men can do. Women can also be rude and interrupting and exert their personalities over a room.'
[Solnit] weaves a global story of women's voices and their testimony being downgraded or dismissed: the female FBI agent whose warnings about al-Qaeda were ignored; the women who need a male witness to corroborate their rape; the writers and politicians whose anger is read as 'shrill' and 'hysterical,' who are told to 'make me a sandwich' by 17-year-old neckbeards on Reddit.
That O'Donnell interrupted and harangued and mansplained […] is not what I take issue with, however.
Perhaps sometime Nader could sit down with a monetary economist to learn about the complexities of interest-rate policy, and maybe to learn a thing or two about gender politics too.
A man compelled to explain or give an opinion about everything—especially to a woman. He speaks, often condescendingly, even if he doesn't know what he's talking about or even if it's none of his business.
So, Mr. Iovine, just so you know: we women don't need you to mansplain music discovery to us.
[To] explain something to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing[.]
Did Trump just try to mansplain the midterms to women? 'Look, look, ladies, I know you don't like me, but here's why you're wrong—shhh, I'm talking. […]'
But along the way, mansplaining has morphed from a useful descriptor of a real problem in contemporary gender dynamics to an increasingly vague catchall expression that seems to be inflaming the Internet gender wars more than clarifying them.
Davis has condemned Perry, as has half of Twitter, for the crime of Mansplaining.
I also love how he mansplains the history of the civil rights movement to her.
Ms Plibersek said: 'Mr Speaker, I'd rather have an answer than the mansplaining by the Prime Minister.'
'I love the mansplaining. I'm enjoying it,' Gallagher said, mixing fatigue with just a hint of provocation.
This election season, the idea of 'mansplaining'—explaining without regard to the fact that the explainee knows more than the explainer, often done by a man to a woman—has exploded into mainstream political commentary.
The use of terms such as 'mansplaining' (and its racial counterpart, 'whitesplaining') can cause disengagement. […] Without such engagement, these terms become unconstructive ad hominem attacks that sidestep meaningful debate when an opponent conveniently possesses privilege.
Though I hasten to add that the essay makes it clear mansplaining is not a universal flaw of the gender, just the intersection between overconfidence and cluelessness where some portion of that gender gets stuck.
[T]o explain something to someone, typically a man to woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
Every woman knows what I'm talking about.
[W]hat happens when a man condescendingly explains something to female listeners[.]
[M]ansplain is such a useful word that -splain has taken on a life of its own.
Whatever the reasons for the current cycle of misandry—yes, that's a word, derided but also adopted for ironic use by many feminists—its existence is quite real. Consider, for example, the number of neologisms that use 'man' as a derogatory prefix and that have entered everyday media language: 'mansplaining,' 'manspreading' and 'manterrupting.'
A man compelled to explain or give an opinion about everything—especially to a woman. He speaks, often condescendingly, even if he doesn't know what he's talking about or even if it's none of his business.
[To] explain something to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing[.]
[I]t will soon enough be the summer of 2012 in Will McAvoy's world, and he may very well find a way to derisively drop a Honey Boo Boo reference into one of his monologues, perhaps while mansplaining journalistic and documentary ethics […].
For one, it's mad essentialist, and by this I mean it assumes a certain universal set of truths shared by all men. […] More than that, 'mansplaining' is kind of lazy and dismissive.
[I]t will soon enough be the summer of 2012 in Will McAvoy's world, and he may very well find a way to derisively drop a Honey Boo Boo reference into one of his monologues, perhaps while mansplaining journalistic and documentary ethics […].
For one, it's mad essentialist, and by this I mean it assumes a certain universal set of truths shared by all men. […] More than that, 'mansplaining' is kind of lazy and dismissive.
