Looking for a Good Word for This
You know "mansplaining," right? When a man tells a woman how she should feel or react to a situation she's going through that he's never experienced? Like periods or childbirth or abortion. It's an excellent word in my opinion, but it needs to be expanded. First of all because it's not only men, and it's not only related to sexual health. Second, because I can think of at least two other situations where such "splaining" happens to me and has nothing to do with gender.
So help me come up with a word? Here's where I need it:
1. Parenting. You know how many non-parents can tell you how to behave with your child?? I even used to do it before I had kids - judge parents and think I knew better, just because I read something in Readers Digest once. It can even be other parents telling you how to parent your child, just because *their* child acts a certain way. Man, I was such a good parent before I had kids.
Anyway "parent-splaining" is terrible, help!
2. Living in the Middle East. So many well-meaning westerners can tell me all about war, like which acts of war are moral or legal. Let me just say this - if you're talking about war with the language of moral philosophy, you're definitely privileged to never have experienced it. Someone called it "west-splaining" but that's a terrible word too, it just doesn't roll off the tongue at all.
Find me a better word.
Thank you.
