Men Explain Things To Me
by Rebecca Solnit · first published 2014
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In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note-- because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, "He's trying to kill me!" This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, inc
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…than someone emailed to point out that even this was inaccurate: they had spotted ‘mansplain’ on a May 2008 blog post, just a month after the writer Rebecca Solnit had published her influential essay Men Explain Things to Me. The updated definition, Proffitt assured me, will be available as soon as possible.” One Wiktionary contributor did a better job[1] in 2012 by immediately finding the use[2] from May 2008. The OED is…
on “Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?” ↗I can't hit the link --- getting a 503 -- but I'd add a few. Rebecca Solnit (Men Explain Things To Me, widely awarded) Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me, MacArthur Fellow) Ibrahim X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist, MacArthur Fellow)
on “The Death of a Public Intellectual” ↗