womansplain
English
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[edit]womansplain (third-person singular simple present womansplains, present participle womansplaining, simple past and past participle womansplained)
- Synonym of femsplain
- 2014 December 16, Lindsay Zoladz, “The Music Club, 2014”, in Slate Magazine:
- To me, the “Blank Space” video is basically the Citizen Kane of ironic misandry, a fourth-wave feminist fad that Amanda Hess articulately womansplained in a Slate article a few months ago.
- 2018 July 4, James Draper, “Love Island fans can't believe Wes Nelson was primary school age in 2009”, in Mirror:
- Then again, it might be appropriate after she 'womansplained' to him about the science behind magnets.
- 2017 September 7, Lisa Schwarzbaum, “'Top of the Lake: China Girl' is Great TV Gone Very Bad”, in Newsweek:
- Had a man made this, he would have been womansplained into contrition.
- 2017 September 8, Antonia Noori Farzan, “Six Things You Can Do Today to Help Arizona Dreamers Affected by the End of DACA”, in Phoenix New Times:
- And getting womansplained to about the fact that some undocumented immigrants are from South America (wow, crazy, who knew???) can't have helped either.