Splaining

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  "name": "Splaining",
  "description": "“Splaining” is not a typo. It’s a pattern. These terms expose tactics that reframe harm as help, control as care, and oppression as oversight. When someone insists they’re helping—but their help strips you of autonomy, authorship, or agency.",
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  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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    "name": "Sarah Ailish McLoughlin"
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Provenance

This concept was extracted from the original SSA Lexicon and republished as a stable ontology resource. Original source page(s): https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/glossary-of-coopted-patterns/