Citations:mansplain

Verb: "to explain condescendingly, because listener is a woman"

 * 2014 April 3, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek & Amanda Pullum, "From Lady Gaga to Consciousness Rap: The Impact of Music on Gender and Social Activism", in Gender & Pop Culture: A Text-Reader (eds. Adrienne Trier-Bieniek & Patricia Leavy), Sense Publishers (2014), ISBN 9789462095755, page 94:
 * Internet discussion of “Bitch Bad” has sparked a lot of outrage and strong opinions, most notably after the music magazine Spin posted a scathing review of the song, marking Fiasco as “mansplaining" and declaring the song a poor, unthoughtful example of someone trying to use hip-hop to raise consciousness.
 * 2014 October 14, Jamie Kilstein & Allison Kilkenny, Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will, Simon & Schuster (2014), ISBN 9781476706511, page xi:
 * Maybe it was because of the MSNBC commercials where he's seemingly annexed a grade school classroom, occupied it, and refused to leave, and is now mansplaining life to his audience.
 * 2015 February 27, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism, Zero Books (2015), ISBN 9781782794615, unnumbered page
 * Positioning himself as the white guy mansplaining to a black woman what's best for her, The New York Time's John Caramanica argues that Rihanna's attempt, on the album, "to make public art with the person who physically abused you is immature, pre-feminist, post-ethics."
 * 2015 June 9, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, Random House (2015), ISBN 9780812996920, unnumbered page:
 * However this was merely his transition to fiction—rather to mansplaining wisdom about fiction.
 * 2015, Charlie Jane Anders, "Ghost Champagne", Uncanny Magazine, Issue 5, July/August 2015, unnumbered page:
 * I mean, I would only use this power in extreme circumstances, like when one of the developers in my day job starts mansplaining to me, or when I'm super bored in a meeting.
 * Chewey: See, manspreading is when a guy, or man, sits on a subway with his legs apart, or spread.
 * Emet: Okay, you don't need to mansplain manspreading to me.
 * 2014 April 3, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek & Amanda Pullum, "From Lady Gaga to Consciousness Rap: The Impact of Music on Gender and Social Activism", in Gender & Pop Culture: A Text-Reader (eds. Adrienne Trier-Bieniek & Patricia Leavy), Sense Publishers (2014), ISBN 9789462095755, page 94:
 * Internet discussion of “Bitch Bad” has sparked a lot of outrage and strong opinions, most notably after the music magazine Spin posted a scathing review of the song, marking Fiasco as “mansplaining" and declaring the song a poor, unthoughtful example of someone trying to use hip-hop to raise consciousness.
 * 2014 October 14, Jamie Kilstein & Allison Kilkenny, Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will, Simon & Schuster (2014), ISBN 9781476706511, page xi:
 * Maybe it was because of the MSNBC commercials where he's seemingly annexed a grade school classroom, occupied it, and refused to leave, and is now mansplaining life to his audience.
 * 2015 February 27, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism, Zero Books (2015), ISBN 9781782794615, unnumbered page
 * Positioning himself as the white guy mansplaining to a black woman what's best for her, The New York Time's John Caramanica argues that Rihanna's attempt, on the album, "to make public art with the person who physically abused you is immature, pre-feminist, post-ethics."
 * 2015 June 9, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, Random House (2015), ISBN 9780812996920, unnumbered page:
 * However this was merely his transition to fiction—rather to mansplaining wisdom about fiction.
 * 2015, Charlie Jane Anders, "Ghost Champagne", Uncanny Magazine, Issue 5, July/August 2015, unnumbered page:
 * I mean, I would only use this power in extreme circumstances, like when one of the developers in my day job starts mansplaining to me, or when I'm super bored in a meeting.
 * Chewey: See, manspreading is when a guy, or man, sits on a subway with his legs apart, or spread.
 * Emet: Okay, you don't need to mansplain manspreading to me.
 * 2015 June 9, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, Random House (2015), ISBN 9780812996920, unnumbered page:
 * However this was merely his transition to fiction—rather to mansplaining wisdom about fiction.
 * 2015, Charlie Jane Anders, "Ghost Champagne", Uncanny Magazine, Issue 5, July/August 2015, unnumbered page:
 * I mean, I would only use this power in extreme circumstances, like when one of the developers in my day job starts mansplaining to me, or when I'm super bored in a meeting.
 * Chewey: See, manspreading is when a guy, or man, sits on a subway with his legs apart, or spread.
 * Emet: Okay, you don't need to mansplain manspreading to me.
 * Chewey: See, manspreading is when a guy, or man, sits on a subway with his legs apart, or spread.
 * Emet: Okay, you don't need to mansplain manspreading to me.