mansplainyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

mansplainy (comparative more mansplainy, superlative most mansplainy)

1. (informal) Engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining.
   • 2014, Wallace Baine, "A man explains 'mansplaining'", Santa Cruz Sentinel, 26 July 2014:

     So, have pity on the mansplainer. His is the merely the voice of a patriarchal world eclipsed by a new one ... wait, did that sound mansplainy?

   • 2015, Emily Berry, in The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (ed. Antonia Fraser), Bloomsbury (2015), →ISBN, pages 306-307:

     […] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer […]

   • 2015, Maryann Johanson, "Spoiled Beefcake", The Riverfront Times, Volume 39, Number 27, 1 July 2015 - 7 July 2015, page 26:

     The nods to how women react to men stripping ranges from the inexplicable […] to the utterly mansplainy, as in the scene in which two men discuss why (they imagine) women like male strippers.

   • 2021 February 26, Rory Smith, “Have You Seen This Man?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     It feels churlish — and, to be honest, at least a bit mansplainy — even to introduce the slightest hint of cold water on the growth of women’s soccer. The infusion of money is welcome, no question. The involvement of men’s clubs is, probably, necessary to accelerate the game’s growth. What matters most of all, of course, is the health of the structure as a whole.