Thinsplain

Quick meaning: Thinsplain is a verb meaning (informal, derogatory) To explain to a fat person (as a thin person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding.

Meaning

(informal, derogatory) To explain to a fat person (as a thin person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding.

Example Sentences

As someone who is currently unlikely to be perceived as a person of size, I risked thinsplaining throughout this research process.

The two strategies I rely on for avoiding thinsplaining are related: first, to listen carefully (“listen thrice before speaking once”) to the voices of the writers of this remarkable collection of stories, […]

When "thin girl" thinsplains about her woes of gaining weight and calls herself "ugly and fat" in response to her body changing […], it suggests that, for one, she equates fat with ugly, and also that she is unaware of others' experiences of fat stigma.

And now he has turned his attention to obesity, by which I mean he thinsplains it. […] You see, thinsplains Callahan, because nothing else seems to be working, we must turn to making obese people feel bad about themselves in order to shed the pounds. […] This isn’t evidence-based public policy, it’s organized bullying masquerading as being cruel to be kind. It’s not bioethics, it’s thinsplaining.

Word Forms

• thinsplains
• thinsplaining
• thinsplained

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include splain, transsplain, thin, dumb down, spoon-feed, thin-slice.

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