femsplain

Verb

femsplain (third-person singular simple present femsplains, present participle femsplaining, simple past and past participle femsplained)

1. To explain feminist concepts or a feminine perspective, especially when done in a condescending manner or to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that he has an inferior understanding of it merely because he is male.
   • Don't try to reinvent what the Internet has already done. Did I femsplain it sufficiently?2015 January 12, “Is it 'lady lecturing' or 'femsplaining'?”, in Los Angeles Times
   • When you femsplain feminism to your friends, make sure you don't femsplain what's wrong with other women; rather, femsplain what's right about you.2016, Beth Newell, Sarah Pappalardo, How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All—And Then Some!, →ISBN
2. (derogatory) To explain (as a woman) the experience of a man.
   • I'm sure I, and the 99.999999% of men in this country who have never, would never, will never rape or harm a woman, need it. You've heard of mansplaining, right? When a man tries to explain rape/sexual assault/etc. to a female rape survivor? Okay, well you're femsplaining rape to a male rape...2014 June 6, Robin Wilson, “Why Colleges Are on the Hook for Sexual Assault”, in Chronicle of Higher Education
   • Yet, it wasn't until Tuesday night's The Daily Show that we learned of a biological struggle that men have when they become parents: dad bods. Women's issues correspondent Kristen Schaal femsplained the fad.2015 May 13, Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, “'The Daily Show' Skewers the Dad Bod as a Lazy Double Standard”, in Take Part