noun
- plural of mansplainer; people (typically men) who explain things in a condescending manner, especially to women, often about topics the listener knows well or better than the explainer
Usage: informal; often used critically or humorously; emerged in popular usage in the 2000sā2010s
Examples
- The meeting was full of mansplainers who kept interrupting the female engineers to explain their own work.
- She rolled her eyes at the mansplainers in the comment section trying to correct her scientific research.
- Online forums often attract mansplainers who assume women don't understand technical topics.
- The podcast discussed how mansplainers undermine women's expertise in professional settings.
- Several mansplainers attempted to explain feminism to the women's studies professor.