#men explain things to me

[woman-for-women]

[cpericardium]

Rebecca Solnit

i NEED more examples of this I need them like I need air

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Yuko Shimizu — Dusting Off the Male Gaze

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“Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth—and in our minds, where it all begins and ends. That so much change has been made in four or five decades is amazing; that everything is not permanantly, definitively, irrevocably changed is not a sign of failure. A woman goes walking down a thousand-mile road. Twenty minutes after she steps forth, they proclaim that she still has nine hundred ninety-nine miles to go and will never get anywhere.”

― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

[alive on all channels]

[pikminenjoyer]

I think I can probably finish the yellow wallpaper today so I'm polling my next read

[ucurumdaki]

Bitirmeme 20 sayfa kaldı. Bence harikulade bir deneme. İsmi bazı erkekler için ofansif gelebilir ama gayet sakin ve "vanilla" bir tavrı var yazarın. Hem kadınlara uygulanan sistemli haksızlığı anlatıyor hem de kadın özgürlüğünün erkek düşmanlığı olmadığını, bunun bir savaş olmadığını derli toplu biçimde anlatıyor. Farklı ülkelerden örneklerleriyle ve geleceğe yönelik iyimser tutumuyla okunması gereken bir kitap bence. Ayrıca "mansplaining" kavramının çıkış noktası da yazarın başından geçen bir olay, kitapta da anlatılıyor.

Not: ben karamsar birisi olarak bi tık fazla iyimser buldum, orası ayrı.

Bizdeki kapak hiç estetik değil bu arada :')

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Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

Rebecca Solnit Men Explain Things to Me

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Book List, 2023

Convenience Store Women by Sayaka Murata

I Want To Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee

Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given

I really want to read more feminism books so if you have any recommendations please share them with me. It'll be greatly appreciated.

No Longer Human Osamu Dazai

I remember a lot of people talking about this book and author in 2020 and I want to finally read it 3 years later....

Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Un-Told Night And Day by Bae Suah

Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto

Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto

Breasts And Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

All The lovers In The Night by Mieko Kawakami

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami, I'm currently reading this one but I'm not that far along so I added it here.

Please send me book recommendations!! I might procrastinate them but it's better to have them than not know what to read next :)

This is the song I was listening to while writing this post.

[ufo9]

The out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about.

Solnit, R. (2014). Men explain things to me.

[namjoon-verifiedfeminist]

[books-in-media]

Natalie Portman, (Elle 2021 Interview)

—Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit (2014)

[woman-for-women]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don’t know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly. And that the unofficial history of the world shows that dedicated individuals and popular movements can shape history and have, though how and when we might win and how long it takes is not predictable. Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it;” ― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

Before the Storm

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Rodin]

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“After my book Wanderlust came out in 2000, I found myself better able to resist being bullied out of my own perceptions and interpretations. On two occasions around that time, I objected to the behavior of a man, only to be told that the incidents hadn't happened at all as I said, that I was subjective, delusional, overwrought, dishonest- in a nutshell, female.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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Review of Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Meh. It was ok. I think this is a great introductory feminist book for a very specific group of people (white women who are dabbling with the idea of feminism). But, i think it’s a very white feminist analysis. I think what rubs me the wrong way about it is like this is what i thought feminism was when i was 12. (and reading about it on tumblr). And i think that the author is taking herself dead seriously that she’s actually approaching it with an intersectional lens. Like if the intended audience was white women who had never had any exposure to feminism and came from very repressive southern places, then maybe it would ok. But i think this is genuinely meant to appeal to all women. It feels like the author forgot that not all women were white. She cites plenty of women of color movements, but really only passingly. I think her analysis of their direct actions is an analysis thru a white lens, it doesn’t really acknowledge the role that race and colonialism play in sexism. it’s mentioned for sure but just not really in a way that shows a real understanding of it.

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Rebecca Solnit. That would be the author of Men Explain Things To Me. Is anyone else seeing the irony of her quote being misattributed to Neil? Just me???

Hello Niel Gaiman,

My school is apart of an art competition,  where we have to make an art price about the future of democracy 

Could I add this as a quote to put in the art?

If you got to read this thank you, and also thank you for all the amazing books you’ve sent out into the world.

Sure. But I'm actually quoting something Rebecca Solnit says in the thread.