femsplaining
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femsplaining
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Patterned after mansplaining.
noun
- The explanation of feminist concepts, often to a man in a condescending and rude manner. I do want to experience Feminist Boredom—when femsplaining and fem… doing (?) become periodically recursive and repetitive, but in a nice vacationy way that is very much a part of working toward something—and Feminist Arrogance, which is fun and about just deciding that everyone who doesn’t know alr
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An often condescending explanation by a woman to a man of topics that the she assumes he does not understand.
Mansplaining is a bit of this year’s wombspeak, a coinage of great self-satisfaction and smugness which attempts to put down reconciling reality to facts, naming fables when they are fables, and contesting any of the dogmas of the enlightened sisterhood, as mere condescension from the other gender.
Similar: womansplaining
verb
- present participle and gerund of femsplain
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