![]() The scourge of Men Explaining Things to Women (and anyone else with ears who might be dragooned into politely not interrupting) has finally, a decade on from Solnit’s essay, found its way into the crosshairs of someone whose approach might actually be able to shift the culture-and that person is a Man who has found a way to monetize Explaining Things to unhappy listeners for laughs. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another forty-something years to live, more or less, so it could happen. “And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don’t. “Men explain things to me, still,” Solnit wrote following that anecdote. ![]() ![]() In the spring of 2008, Rebecca Solnit published an essay on TomDispatch titled “ Men Explain Things to Me in which she related a now-infamous story of attending a Very Respectable Party at which a Very Respectable Man interrupted her talking about her newest book to hold forth of the great importance of what, he turned ashen to learn after her friend finally managed to interject, was Solnit’s own dang book. ![]()
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