"ablesplain" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "able + -splain",
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      "form": "ablesplained",
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          "name": "Disability",
          "orig": "en:Disability",
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            "Society",
            "Body",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "ablesplaining"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Jay Dolmage, Dale Jacobs, “Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium”, in C. Foss, J. Gray, Zach Whalen, editors, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives, page 17",
          "text": "The disability needs to be “ablesplained” by a medical authority—and these explanations often usurp the voice or perspective of the narrator and overwrite their identity in scientific and pathological terms.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Samantha Connor, quoted in April Glover, \"Qantas pilot slammed for 'patronising announcement' blaming flight delay on wheelchair-bound passenger\", Daily Mail, 15 June 2017",
          "text": "'They just ablesplained their delay by using a disabled passenger as an excuse. And it's a disabled passenger I know. You truly cannot make this up.'"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Cushla Brooke Dares, \"BEYOND the FORTRESS: Dis/ability, Community and Care\", thesis submitted to the University of Canterbury, page 9",
          "text": "I’m so sick of able-bodied people trying to speak for us, and ablesplaining!"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To explain something related to disability in a manner that is condescending or shows a lack of understanding, compassion, or respect for the disabled."
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          "explain"
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          "condescending",
          "condescending"
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          "understanding",
          "understanding"
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          "compassion",
          "compassion"
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          "respect",
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          "disabled",
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        "(neologism, of a nondisabled person) To explain something related to disability in a manner that is condescending or shows a lack of understanding, compassion, or respect for the disabled."
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        "of a nondisabled person"
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  "etymology_text": "able + -splain",
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    },
    {
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    },
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      "form": "ablesplained",
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  ],
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          "ref": "2016, Jay Dolmage, Dale Jacobs, “Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium”, in C. Foss, J. Gray, Zach Whalen, editors, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives, page 17",
          "text": "The disability needs to be “ablesplained” by a medical authority—and these explanations often usurp the voice or perspective of the narrator and overwrite their identity in scientific and pathological terms.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2017, Samantha Connor, quoted in April Glover, \"Qantas pilot slammed for 'patronising announcement' blaming flight delay on wheelchair-bound passenger\", Daily Mail, 15 June 2017",
          "text": "'They just ablesplained their delay by using a disabled passenger as an excuse. And it's a disabled passenger I know. You truly cannot make this up.'"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Cushla Brooke Dares, \"BEYOND the FORTRESS: Dis/ability, Community and Care\", thesis submitted to the University of Canterbury, page 9",
          "text": "I’m so sick of able-bodied people trying to speak for us, and ablesplaining!"
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