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Actually, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump at his own game: mansplainingmansplainmanˈspleɪn/
verb
informal
past tense: mansplained; past participle: mansplained
(of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
"I'm listening to a guy mansplain economics to his wife"
Mansplaining is a
portmanteau of the words man and explaining, defined as "to explain something to someone, typically a man to woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing."
[1][2] Lily Rothman of
The Atlantic defines it as "explaining without regard to the fact that the explainee knows more than the explainer, often done by a man to a woman",
[3] and feminist author and essayist
Rebecca The word is thought to have been first used in 2008 or 2009,
[16] shortly after Solnit published her April 2008 blog post. In it, she did not use the word mansplaining, but described the phenomenon as "something every woman knows."
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