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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.