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Mansplaining is a portmanteau of the words ''man'' and ''explaining,'' defined as "to explain something to someone, typically a man to 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,"〔 and Rebecca Solnit ascribes the phenomenon to a combination of "overconfidence and cluelessness" that some men display. The neologism〔 showed up simultaneously in multiple places, so its origin is difficult to establish.〔 In an essay titled ''Men Explain Things to Me'', 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 book at the time, 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. The word soon became popular among feminist bloggers, and then in mainstream cultural commentary.〔 It was included on The ''New York Times'' 2010 word of the year list,〔 nominated for the American Dialect Society's most creative word of the year honor in 2012,〔 and added to the online ''Oxford Dictionaries'' in 2014. It has also engendered parallel constructions such as ''whitesplaining'' and ''rightsplaining''. As the word became more popular, some commentators complained that misappropriation and overuse had in some instances diluted its original meaning, and that it was sometimes used in an inflammatory way to discredit an opponent's arguments without confronting him or her directly. == Definition == Mansplaining covers a heterogeneous mix of mannerisms in which a speaker's reduced respect for the stance of a listener, or a person being discussed, appears to have little reason behind it other than the speaker's assumption that the listener or subject, being female, does not have the same capacity to understand as a man. It also covers situations in which it appears a person is using a conversation primarily for the purpose of self-aggrandizement — holding forth to a female listener, presumed to be less capable, in order to appear knowledgeable by comparison. Solnit's original essay went further, discussing the consequences of this gendered behavior and drawing attention to its effect in creating a conspiracy of silence and disempowerment.〔(Men Explain Things to Me; Facts Didn't Get in Their Way ) - April 13 2008, essay, Rebecca Solnit〕 Solnit later published ''Men Explain Things To Me'', a collection of seven essays on similar themes. Women, including professionals and experts, are routinely seen or treated as less credible than men, she wrote in the title essay, and their insights or even legal testimony are dismissed unless validated by a man. She argued that this was one symptom of a widespread phenomenon that "keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence." Mansplaining differs somewhat from other forms of condescension in that it is specifically gender-related, rooted in a sexist assumption that a man will normally be more knowledgeable, or more capable of understanding, than a woman. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mansplaining」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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