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English citations of thinsplain

Verb: "(informal, derogatory) to explain to a fat person (as a thin person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding"

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  • 2014, Daniel S. Goldberg, "Fatness, Medicalization, and Stigma: On the Need to Do Better", Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2014, page 117:
    The two strategies I rely on for avoiding thinsplaining are related: first, to listen carefully (“listen thrice before speaking once”) to the voices of the writers of this remarkable collection of stories, and second, to take a bottom-up approach that examines the narratives for important themes and points that emerge from the texts themselves.
  • 2019, anonymous, quoted in Judith C. Bridges, "splaininggender, race, class, and body: Metapragmatic disputes of linguistic authority and ideologies on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page 205:
    Then don't thinsplain to those of us who don’t have those same privileges, it is ENTIRELY unwelcome
  • 2019, Roxie Clarke, The Sweetheart Plant, unnumbered page:
    Sitting through an hour of thinsplaining didn't sound awesome, but she supposed it wouldn't kill her.
  • 2019, Braelin Pantel, "Students of Size: An Exploratory Case Study on a Hidden Climate", University of Northern Colorado, page 78:
    As someone who is currently unlikely to be perceived as a person of size, I risked thinsplaining throughout this research process.
  • 2021, Judith Bridges, "Explaining '-splain' in digital discourse", Language Under Discussion, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2021), page 21:
    When "thin girl" thinsplains about her woes of gaining weight and calls herself "ugly and fat" in response to her body changing (but not to the point that that her interlocutor is not still thin), it suggests that, for one, she equates fat with ugly, and also that she is unaware of others' experiences of fat stigma.
  • 2021, Birgit Wittezaele, "'Skinny is magic': TV show Insatiable negotiating (fat) female bodies", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, pages 5-6:
    Chastain (2012) problematizes Milano’s statement, noting that Milano doesn’t seem to recognize she has been thinsplaining fatphobia to fat people.