Citations:thinsplain

English citations of thinsplain

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

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• 2014, Daniel S. Goldberg, "Fatness, Medicalization, and Stigma: On the Need to Do Better", Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2014, page 117:

  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, and second, to take a bottom-up approach that examines the narratives for important themes and points that emerge from the texts themselves.

• 2019, anonymous, quoted in Judith C. Bridges, "[X]splaininggender, race, class, and body: Metapragmatic disputes of linguistic authority and ideologies on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page 205:

  Then don't thinsplain to those of us who don’t have those same privileges, it is ENTIRELY unwelcome

• 2019, Roxie Clarke, The Sweetheart Plant, unnumbered page:

  Sitting through an hour of thinsplaining didn't sound awesome, but she supposed it wouldn't kill her.

• 2019, Braelin Pantel, "Students of Size: An Exploratory Case Study on a Hidden Climate", University of Northern Colorado, page 78:

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

• 2021, Judith Bridges, "Explaining '-splain' in digital discourse", Language Under Discussion, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2021), page 21:

  When "thin girl" thinsplains about her woes of gaining weight and calls herself "ugly and fat" in response to her body changing (but not to the point that that^[sic] her interlocutor is not still thin), it suggests that, for one, she equates fat with ugly, and also that she is unaware of others' experiences of fat stigma.

• 2021, Birgit Wittezaele, "'Skinny is magic': TV show Insatiable negotiating (fat) female bodies", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, pages 5-6:

  Chastain (2012) problematizes Milano’s statement, noting that Milano doesn’t seem to recognize she has been thinsplaining fatphobia to fat people.