La palabra mansplaining proviene del inglés y se puede traducir al español como machoexplicación (de la combinación de macho y explicación).
This is the male practice of explaining things to women, regardless of whether the man knows or understands the topic and doing so with a paternalistic and condescending tone, even if the woman is an expert on the subject. Mansplaining even goes as far as explaining to a woman something that she herself has just expressed or a personal experience.
The term emerged from Rebecca Solnit’s essay Men Explain Things to Me, where she tells the story of a man who tried to explain to her a book that she herself had written. It refers to the lack of recognition of women for being women and to men’s habit of explaining things even when they might have a lesser degree of understanding.
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