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Men Explain Things to Me Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Haymarket Books

Apr 18, 2014 - I'm sure an Indian Solnit could write a long and painful article titled "White Men Explain Things to Me". Notify me of follow-up comments via email. Search One factor that has sometimes been mentioned to explain this is demographics: India is one of the countries with a distinctly unbalanced gender ratio: there are 37 million more men than women, and 1.1 men for each woman. 4 days ago - I apparently had something to do with the birth of the word "mansplaining," though I didn't coin it myself. This is due in part to a large share of young girls not being born, via abortion or other means, because of a ( Log Out / Change ). May 31, 2014 - The natural order of things. May 27, 2014 - By Sunday, the hashtag #YesAllWomen had gone viral. That I just can't seem to wrap my little girl head around. Feb 27, 2013 - I recently came across this tumblr "Academic Men Explain Things to me," a collection of women's stories of times they were mansplained. The author Rebecca Solnit sums it up as follows: “Men explain things to me, and to other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. Captured a yet-unnamed interaction that would soon come to be known as mansplaining. (Since you I also started reading Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit. Apr 21, 2008 - men explain things to me. In speaking out, women were placing the shooting inside a broader context of misogynist violence that often goes ignored. 5 hours ago - Just Finished: Orlando by Virginia Woolf, The Secret Place by Tana French, The Cove by Ron Rash, Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit. 3 days ago - I'm going to ignore the internet for now and hope that by the time I am done writing this in TextEdit on my Mac, things will be hunky-dory again. For your consideration, by Bebe at 6:04 PM.