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English to Dutch translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. Additional field(s): General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters, Psychology, Slang, Journalism | |||||||||||
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mansplainen Definition from wikipedia: Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning "(of a man) to comment on or explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner". Author Rebecca Solnit ascribes the phenomenon to a combination of "overconfidence and cluelessness". 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". In its original use, mansplaining differed from other forms of condescension in that it is rooted in the assumption that a man is likely to be more knowledgeable than a woman. However, it has come to be used more broadly, often applied when a man takes a condescending tone in an explanation to anyone, regardless of the age or gender of the intended recipients: a "man 'splaining" can be delivered to any audience. In 2010, it was named by the New York Times as one of its "Words of the Year". The verb splain has been in use for more than 200 years, originally as a colloquial pronunciation of the Late Middle English word explain. It came increasingly to refer to condescending or verbose explanations. The term mansplaining was inspired by an essay, "Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way", written by Rebecca Solnit and published on TomDispatch.com on 13 April 2008. In the essay, Solnit told an anecdote about a man at a party who said he had heard she had written some books. She began to talk about her most recent, on Eadweard Muybridge, whereupon the man cut her off and asked if she had "heard about the very important Muybridge book that came out this year"—not considering that it might be (as, in fact, it was) Solnit's book. Solnit did not use the word mansplaining in the essay, but she described the phenomenon as "something every woman knows". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining Mansplaining vindt plaats als een man een onderwerp op een neerbuigende en betuttelende manier uitlegt aan een vrouw. Het is een porte-manteauwoord (samentrekking) van de Engelse woorden man en de informele vorm splaining van het werkwoord to explain (uitleggen). Het woord is ontstaan naar aanleiding van een essay van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Rebecca Solnit in 2008. Het artikel diende als katalysator voor de opkomst van de term en de snelle verspreiding ervan op internet. De term verwijst naar de machtsasymmetrieën in de communicatie tussen mannen en vrouwen, waarvan de bijbehorende herwaarderingseffecten vaak onopgemerkt blijven door mannen. Omdat er geen Nederlandse variatie bestaat op het woord "mansplaining", maar het fenomeen hier ook voorkomt, wordt het Engelse woord gebruikt door onder andere Nederlandse media. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining Betekenis 'mansplainen' mansplainen (overgankelijk werkwoord; mansplainde, heeft gemansplaind) 1 (door een man) op een neerbuigende, bevoogdende manier uitleggen aan een vrouw https://www.vandale.nl/gratis-woordenboek/nederlands/beteken... Example sentence(s):
Explanation: Unfortunately, a Dutch alternative is infeasible: 'mansplainen' has become an established expression, perhaps because a Dutch alternative was infeasible. :-) |
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