Mansplaining这个词看着有点眼熟,可到底是什么意思?请看对话:
A: Did you meet Edward at the seminar? He said he was interested in your new book.
B: Oh, I did. Before I was going to introduce myself, he cut me off and asked if I had read that book I wrote and began to share “interesting ideas” from it.
A: He must have felt very awkward about mansplaining to you about your own book.
Note: This term is a portmanteau of the words “man” and “explaining,” defined as “to explain something to someone, typically a man to a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.” Lily Rothman of The Atlantic defines it as “explaining without regard to the fact that the explainee knows more than the explainer, often done by a man to a woman.” It was selected for New York Times’ 2010 word of the year list and added to the online Oxford Dictionaries last year.
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