A fork of Rural Dictionary
Exposed to a situation, an image or a comment which stimulates a PTSD reaction
When I said the Bulls got "raped" in their last game, she curled up in a ball and started crying because the word had triggered her old trauma, so I told her to quit being a whiny little SJW bitch.
To explain to someone who has engaged in mansplaining, whitesplaining, richsplaining, &c., the error they have fallen into due to their privileged position.
He said he had trouble finding comfortable shoes for the office, too, and I humansplained to him that there is no shoe made for men which was anything like as uncomfortable as the two-inch heel minimum required by the company dress code.
"Bat", of course, refers to members of the order chiroptera (with some contending that the "megachiroptera" of South America should be classified as primates), strange and wonderful animals which are beneficial to humanity. Intelligent, well-educated liberals recognize bats as an asset, and seek to encourage them through environmental protection, including the building of bathouses on the outsides of their homes. The ignorant and superstitious hate and fear bats, and can think of no worse insult than to compare people they also hate and fear (out of ignorance) to bats.
"Moon" refers to Earth's primary natural sattelite, which humans visited for a brief period thanks to a massive liberal spending program. The scientific and technological benefits of the Apollo Project were immense, and would have been far greater if the program had not been killed by a right-wing administration that wanted to spend that money on a futile foreign war. Thus, the Moon is, like bats, symbolic of liberalism and all the benefits it brings to a culture, and naturally will be an object of hatred and fear to the Right.
Combine the two and you get "Moonbat"; environmental good sense, scientific curiosity, prosperity for all and the triumph of knowledge over traditional superstition. In short, all the things that enemies of civilization like Osama bin Laden and Pat Robertson hate most.
I support as continued ban on DDT because I am a moonbat.