"One evening over dinner in March 2008, I began to joke, as I often had before, about writing an essay called "Men Exp…"

"Slick: There's nothing wrong with admiring the female form… Xanthe: No mansplaining. Slick: "Mansplaining"? Xanthe: Y…"

"The commonly cited birthday of the idea is 2008. That year, a portion of an essay by Rebecca Solnit, called "Men Expl…"

"A friend spotted this in Texas: #Mansplaining The Statue."

"It was two students visiting, talking … implying nothing beyond that."

"Katy Gallagher: I love the mansplaining. I am enjoying it. Mitch Fifield: You are loving what? Katy Gallagher: The ma…"

"Mansplaining is a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming."

"Whatever the reasons for the current cycle of misandry—yes, that's a word, derided but also adopted for ironic use by…"

"Russell: The Chinese have had a bug up their ass about the Dalai Lama since the 1950s, when they first drove him from…"

"It isn't that mansplaining doesn't still occur, rampantly. It's that the term has been thinned and flattened into pol…"