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Men Explain Things To Me

Men Explain Things To Me
Rebecca Solnit

Men Explain Things to Me is a 2014 book by Rebecca Solnit, published by Haymarket Books. The book is a collection of seven essays and, according to its publisher, "has become a touchstone of the feminist movement." The main essay in the book was cited in The New Republic as the piece that "launched the term mansplaining" . The September 2015 expanded edition of the book included two new essays: "Cassandra Among the Creeps" and "#YesAllWomen: Feminists Rewrite the Story."

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“Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.”

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“Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.”

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“We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.”

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“Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness.”

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“The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.”

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“billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.”

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“Women’s liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful.”

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“There’s no good reason (and many bad reasons) colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators.”

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