"femsplain" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From feminist + -splain. Compare mansplain, womansplaining.",
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          "ref": "2015 January 12, “Is it 'lady lecturing' or 'femsplaining'?”, in Los Angeles Times:",
          "text": "Don't try to reinvent what the Internet has already done. Did I femsplain it sufficiently?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Beth Newell, Sarah Pappalardo, How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All—And Then Some!, →ISBN:",
          "text": "When you femsplain feminism to your friends, make sure you don't femsplain what's wrong with other women; rather, femsplain what's right about you.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 9, Georgia S. Kaufman, “I Hate You, I Love You, Daddy: Thoughts on the Louis CK Movie You May Never Get to See”, in The Stranger:",
          "text": "After about an hour and a half of frustratedly rubbing his temples, struggling to exist in a world he doesn't understand, Glen sits on a couch alongside his daughter's friend Zasha, who femsplains to him that \"we're all perverts.\" Girls are just attracted to older guys, she says as his mouth goes limp.",
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        "To explain feminist concepts or a feminine perspective, especially when done in a condescending manner or to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that he has an inferior understanding of it merely because he is male."
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          "ref": "2014 June 6, Robin Wilson, “Why Colleges Are on the Hook for Sexual Assault”, in Chronicle of Higher Education:",
          "text": "I'm sure I, and the 99.999999% of men in this country who have never, would never, will never rape or harm a woman, need it. You've heard of mansplaining, right? When a man tries to explain rape/sexual assault/etc. to a female rape survivor? Okay, well you're femsplaining rape to a male rape survivor.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 May 13, Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, “'The Daily Show' Skewers the Dad Bod as a Lazy Double Standard”, in Take Part:",
          "text": "Yet, it wasn't until Tuesday night's The Daily Show that we learned of a biological struggle that men have when they become parents: dad bods. Women's issues correspondent Kristen Schaal femsplained the fad.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To explain (as a woman) the experience of a man."
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        "(derogatory) To explain (as a woman) the experience of a man."
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          "ref": "2015 January 12, “Is it 'lady lecturing' or 'femsplaining'?”, in Los Angeles Times:",
          "text": "Don't try to reinvent what the Internet has already done. Did I femsplain it sufficiently?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Beth Newell, Sarah Pappalardo, How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All—And Then Some!, →ISBN:",
          "text": "When you femsplain feminism to your friends, make sure you don't femsplain what's wrong with other women; rather, femsplain what's right about you.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 November 9, Georgia S. Kaufman, “I Hate You, I Love You, Daddy: Thoughts on the Louis CK Movie You May Never Get to See”, in The Stranger:",
          "text": "After about an hour and a half of frustratedly rubbing his temples, struggling to exist in a world he doesn't understand, Glen sits on a couch alongside his daughter's friend Zasha, who femsplains to him that \"we're all perverts.\" Girls are just attracted to older guys, she says as his mouth goes limp.",
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        "To explain feminist concepts or a feminine perspective, especially when done in a condescending manner or to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that he has an inferior understanding of it merely because he is male."
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          "feminist",
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        {
          "ref": "2014 June 6, Robin Wilson, “Why Colleges Are on the Hook for Sexual Assault”, in Chronicle of Higher Education:",
          "text": "I'm sure I, and the 99.999999% of men in this country who have never, would never, will never rape or harm a woman, need it. You've heard of mansplaining, right? When a man tries to explain rape/sexual assault/etc. to a female rape survivor? Okay, well you're femsplaining rape to a male rape survivor.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 May 13, Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, “'The Daily Show' Skewers the Dad Bod as a Lazy Double Standard”, in Take Part:",
          "text": "Yet, it wasn't until Tuesday night's The Daily Show that we learned of a biological struggle that men have when they become parents: dad bods. Women's issues correspondent Kristen Schaal femsplained the fad.",
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        }
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        "(derogatory) To explain (as a woman) the experience of a man."
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