• The sa-shi-su-se-so’s of being a good listener are said to be deployed by Japanese women who are trying to flatter a suitor or humor a condescending man. | GETTY IMAGES
    The sa-shi-su-se-so’s of being a good listener are said to be deployed by Japanese women who are trying to flatter a suitor or humor a condescending man. | GETTY IMAGES
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There’s no word for “mansplaining” in Japanese, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

A portmanteau of the words “man” and “explaining,” it is defined as when a man explains something to a woman or gender nonconforming individual with a 上から目線 (ue kara mesen, condescending attitude) that assumes she or they have no knowledge on the matter at hand.

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