thinsplain
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To explain to a fat person (as a thin person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding.
Derogatory; Informal
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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, […]"
- "As someone who is currently unlikely to be perceived as a person of size, I risked thinsplaining throughout this research process."
- "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."