Mansplaining definition
Mansplaining is a neologism that means something like “explaining without regard to the fact that the explainee knows more than the explainer, often done by a man to a woman” (Rothman 2012). In paradigm cases of mansplaining, a woman—often one with expertise in the subject at hand—expresses some content. A man—often one with less or commensurate expertise—expresses some related content with a high degree of confidence and condescension. And this phenomenon is neither new nor isolated.2 Rebecca Solnit, in her essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” writes,