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daisymoon 's review for:
The Mother of All Questions
by Rebecca Solnit
I almost did not read that book. I had been pretty disappointed by "Men Explain Things To Me" by Solnit and I thought this book would have the same issues. But sometimes being a serial book shopper can be helpful.
This collection of essays is amazingly clever and well-written and sometimes even pretty funny. The themes are all interesting and honestly I've said "OMG YES ! YES!" so many times while reading that I was a little concerned somebody would hear me and wonder what I was doing.
My favorite Essay was the one about silence, the longest of the collection. In it, Solnit explains so many important things about how silence kills and silence oppresses and how it is used by the Patriarchy to keep women under its thumb.
Another essay struck me, but as a very sad one. In it, Solnit rejoiced of the fact that men seemed to be more apt to join the feminism movment and she illustrated it by two main examples : Aziz Ansari and Louis CK. The essay was from 2014 or 2015, and it's really sad to see how those two examples actually ended up less that 5 years later. Reading the essay now, while knowing what kind of men those two comedians are, kinda gives another meaning to it. It reads as a cautionary tale to how we should take it when a cishet man calls himself a feminist.
This collection of essays is amazingly clever and well-written and sometimes even pretty funny. The themes are all interesting and honestly I've said "OMG YES ! YES!" so many times while reading that I was a little concerned somebody would hear me and wonder what I was doing.
My favorite Essay was the one about silence, the longest of the collection. In it, Solnit explains so many important things about how silence kills and silence oppresses and how it is used by the Patriarchy to keep women under its thumb.
Another essay struck me, but as a very sad one. In it, Solnit rejoiced of the fact that men seemed to be more apt to join the feminism movment and she illustrated it by two main examples : Aziz Ansari and Louis CK. The essay was from 2014 or 2015, and it's really sad to see how those two examples actually ended up less that 5 years later. Reading the essay now, while knowing what kind of men those two comedians are, kinda gives another meaning to it. It reads as a cautionary tale to how we should take it when a cishet man calls himself a feminist.