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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mansplain .
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Examples
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Which brings me to this: gentlemen are sometimes reluctant to back a woman up when they see she is being ignored or mansplained at.
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Granted, I am assuming the posters are male, but it sure FEELS like I am being mansplained at.
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A coworker mansplained to me that, because his wife and him had as many children as his wife wanted, women rule families.
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But having just read this post, and having been mansplained once by this very dude, I sent him my thoughts.
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The most memorable movie mansplainer (out of the movies I've seen) had to be Preston Preston in "Young Einstein", who mansplained to Marie Curie the workings of a phonograph.
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Granted, I am assuming the posters are male, but it sure FEELS like I am being mansplained at.
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He later mansplained that no one ever questions him -- MDs trust him to just do his job ...
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Ex: I was mansplained to that the reason one of my homework questions was wrong was not because I had simply lost track of a wayward negative sign, but because women cannot understand physics with their poor tiny non-spatial brains.
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A coworker mansplained to me that, because his wife and him had as many children as his wife wanted, women rule families.
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Which brings me to this: gentlemen are sometimes reluctant to back a woman up when they see she is being ignored or mansplained at.
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