thinsplain

Verb

thinsplain (third-person singular simple present thinsplains, present participle thinsplaining, simple past and past participle thinsplained)

1. (derogatory, informal) To explain to a fat person (as a thin person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding.
   • And now he has turned his attention to obesity, by which I mean he thinsplains it. […] You see, thinsplains Callahan, because nothing else seems to be working, we must turn to making obese people feel bad about themselves in order to shed the pounds. […] This isn’t evidence-based public policy...2013 January 15, Dan O'Connor, “Dan Callahan Thinsplains Obesity”, in Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2014, retrieved 28 Apr 2013
   • 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, […]2014, Daniel S. Goldbert, "Fatness, Medicalization, and Stigma: On the Need to Do Better", Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2014, page 117