Citations:mansplainy

English citations of mansplainy

Adjective: "(slang) engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining"

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• 2014, Wallace Baine, "A man explains 'mansplaining'", Santa Cruz Sentinel, 26 July 2014:

  So, have pity on the mansplainer. His is the merely the voice of a patriarchal world eclipsed by a new one ... wait, did that sound mansplainy?

• 2014, Caitlin Dewey, "Rape threats, then no response: What it was like to be a woman on Twitter in 2014", The Washington Post, 17 December 2014:

  On Friday, when I got that casual, mansplainy e-mail from Twitter, I thought that was pretty much the last straw. So I took a screenshot of the e-mail and — oh, irony — posted it to Twitter, where nearly 400 equally frustrated people promptly retweeted it.

• 2015, Emily Berry, in The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (ed. Antonia Fraser), Bloomsbury (2015), →ISBN, pages 306-307:

  […] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer […]

• 2015, Maryann Johanson, "Spoiled Beefcake", The Riverfront Times, Volume 39, Number 27, 1 July 2015 - 7 July 2015, page 26:

  The nods to how women react to men stripping ranges from the inexplicable […] to the utterly mansplainy, as in the scene in which two men discuss why (they imagine) women like male strippers.

• 2015, "The Stranger's Endorsements for the August 2015 Primary Election!", The Stranger, Volume 24, Number 46, 15 July 2015 - 21 July 2015, page 11:

  For starters, her challengers are the biggest pair of sweaty, mansplainy assholes the SECB has ever had to share an airless conference room with.