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To splain is to do a really bad case of "explaining" something. There are many different ways of splaining, which are often (but far from always) intertwined with each other. These include...
- Cluelessplaining: Explaining things that you know nothing about - either at all, or compared to the person you explain them to. Must be done with an attitude of "I'm teaching you the way it is, learn from me" kind of attitude to count as splaining. It is NOT splaining to explain your own understanding of a topic, not as long as you are open to the other person's input and knowledge.
- Condesplaining: Explaining things in a condencending way.
- Drownsplaining: The "explaining" just goes on and on, so the other person doesn't get any real chance to participate in this dialogue-turned-monologue.
The term splaining is derived from Rebecca Solnits essay "Men explain things to me", where she tells about a time when a man she hasn't met before starts telling her about a book she's written. He talks down to her about the book (condesplaining), Just keeps downing on (drownsplaining) without even registring that Solnit and her friend tries to tell him that she's actually the author ofthis book which he hasn't even read (cluelessplaining).
Sadly, a lot of people who got hooked on the title rather than on the actual content started calling the whole thing "mansplaining"... As if the problem was that this splainer was born with a penis rather than how he behaved. Solnit has distanced herself from the term "mansplaining", arguing that the problem is a set of behaviors rather than being of a certain gender.
