Mansplaining
Mansplaining – from the English words man and explain – refers to a male, sexist, condescending, self-confident, or oversimplified manner of explaining something to women that they already know. In many cases, the person doing the explaining may himself have only limited knowledge of the subject under discussion.
Mansplaining may also be understood as a masculine communicative habit of interrupting women, ignoring or dismissing what they say, devaluing women’s statements, and entering a conversation from the position of someone who is assumed to be right in advance and to possess superior knowledge.
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