2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal[1], archived from the original on 2012-10-19:
Mansplaining isn't just the act of explaining while male, of course; many men manage to explain things every day without in the least insulting their listeners. Mansplaining is when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate "facts" about something you know a hell of a lot more about than he does.
2010 January 5, Zuska, “You May Be A Mansplainer If…”, in Thus Spake Zuska[2], ScienceBlogs, retrieved 2012-05-26:
Mansplaining. We’ve all had to endure it, on the internets or IRL, so frequently we are often overwhelmed with the desire to hork up serious chunks on the mansplainer’s shoes
2010 January 28, Choire Sicha, “"Mansplaining" Critique Really Upsets Men, Who Are Usually Too Busy Feigning Concern For the Subjects of Women's Memoirs”, in The Awl[3]:
A woman wrote about mansplaining. This, as you know if you are a woman, is when a man explains reality to you in a way that is intended to overrule what you very clearly know is actual reality, or to tell you things you have already said, or to tell you that what you are doing right is wrong.
2010 January 29, Twisty Faster, “There are molecules in the brain called “neurotransmitters””, in I Blame the Patriarchy[4], retrieved 2012-06-21:
In fact, quite the buttload of Zuska’s mansplaining commenters are apparently authoritative experts on mansplaining. This is surprising and kind of meta, since it is a well-known fact that men who claim to know what the fuck mansplaining is cannot resist mansplaining that it doesn’t, at least for them, exist. More than a few of them mansplain that theirs is a truly lofty and nuanced apprehension of mansplaining, which is why when they do it they aren’t really doing it, so it isn’t the same as when actual mansplainers mansplain.
2010 February 3, “The Art of Mansplaining”, in Fannie's Room[5], retrieved 2012-05-26:
Whereas whitesplaining is the result of the white experience being "normed," mansplaining, is the logical result of males possessing the privilege whereby they are largely assumed to be both default human beings and automatically competent at life.
2011 July 5, Megan Milanese, “Look, Kitten, I Am Too A Feminist! Fauxminism and Men”, in Lawsonry[6], retrieved 2012-05-26:
A feminist man should be able to understand the difference between mansplaining and simply explaining something while simultaneously being a man. The difference is the invalidation of the marginalized person’s expertise and experience as well as the general patronizing or condescending tone.
2012 March 21, Adam Lee, “Your Daily Dose of Mansplaining”, in Daylight Atheism[7], retrieved 2012-05-26:
Mansplaining occurs particularly often in anti-feminist, patriarchal religions, where male authority figures — often, elderly, celibate male authority figures — presume to instruct women on the appropriate use of their reproductive systems. Indeed, some of the most ancient and solemn decrees of organized religion are mansplaining through and through.
2012 August 1, Marin Cogan, “The Mittsplainer: An Alternate Theory of Mitt Romney's Gaffes”, in GQ[8], →ISSN:
In a weird way, if you see Mitt Romney's gaffes as merely mansplaining, they're somehow more tolerable, because it implies that they come from a lack of self-awareness rather than malice.
2012 October 12, Kat Stoeffel, “Mansplaining Paul Ryan Meme Came True”, in New York[9], →ISSN:
Although the tangential monologue on the definition of "fighting season" might have been Ryan's most egregious example of mansplaining ("Let me bring some — let me try and illustrate the issue here, because I think this — it can get a little confusing." No, not at all, but thank you for your concern), his personal story about a fetus named Bean is the meme-makers' favorite.
2012 October 18, pandora, “The Men Of Morning Joe Mansplain Women Issues To Mika”, in Delaware Liberal[10], retrieved 2012-10-18:
But the comment that actually had me stopping in my tracks was this bit of mansplaining by Joe Scarborough. Joe was scolding Mika, telling her how abortion wasn’t a big issue outside of Los Angelos and Manhattan, that most women are concerned about the economy.
2013, Debbie Cerda, "Foreward", in Austin Beer: Capital City History on Tap, American Palate (2013), →ISBN, page 7:
Or perhaps it's because I empathize with the phenomenon of mansplaining that happens too often to women in the craft beer community.
2013 May, Alice Bell, “Mansplaining and silos of knowledge”, in Popular Science UK[11]:
You know when someone explains something to you, but you already know about it, and you feel a bit patronised? Maybe because you are even wearing a giant flashing badge with “I KNOW LOADS ABOUT THIS I HAVE SIX ZILLION NOBEL PRIZES IN IT” which they somehow manage not to see, too caught up in their own knowledge. That’s mansplaining.
2013 December 11, Lynne Conner, Audience Engagement and the Role of Arts Talk in the Digital Era, Palgrave Macmillan (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Still, perhaps Tannen's "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" application can shed light on the dynamics of audience talkbalks where forms of "mansplaining" and reportage have been known to compete with personal anecdotes and seemingly off-topic emotional digressions to inhibit the free flow of ideas that mark a productive conversation.
2014 May 1, Diane Anderson-Minshall & Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders, Bold Strokes Books (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
(Until recently—when I raised the ire of numerous trans women in an online opinion piece that elicited charges of “mansplaining” and other sexist crimes, […]
2014 December 1, Jeet Heer, Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles, The Porcupine's Quill (2014), →ISBN, page 179:
It's hard to appreciate the full pathological depths of mansplaining unless you've read late-period Heinlein, an experience comparable to being trapped in an elevator for six hours with a boorish know-it-all offering his theories on economics, politics, sex, aesthetics, military strategy, investing and myriad other topics.
2014 December 1, Melissa Welshans, “Get Your Hands Off My Boobs: Mansplaining and (Gay) Male Privilege”, in Metathesis[12], retrieved 2014-12-02:
Mansplaining underscores for women that their knowledge of the world is suspect for no other reason than because they are women.
2015 December 7, James Taranto, "You're Being Hysterical. Calm Down." in the Wall Street Journal:
“Cognitive therapy” is the fancy clinical term for what is otherwise known as “mansplaining.”
