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nickoliver 's review for:
Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit
challenging
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
I really enjoyed the majority of the essays, even if they were pretty depressing to read in "let's try to bring the 1930s back!" fascist 2025. But I loved Solnit's writing, I felt like it impacted me quite a lot.
There were, admittedly, a few other things I didn't like: One, it could've been more intersectional. It did talk a little bit about queer people, and a little bit about people of colour, but not enough. Plus, there were a few instances that felt a bit islamophobic to me - for example, there was one little throwaway comment that made it sound like women who wear burkas were all oppressed.
And lastly, Solnit kept name-dropping her other essays in these essays, which I totally would've been fine with if it'd happened once or twice, but she kept doing it throughout all the essays, and it just got a bit too much and egotistical.
There were, admittedly, a few other things I didn't like: One, it could've been more intersectional. It did talk a little bit about queer people, and a little bit about people of colour, but not enough. Plus, there were a few instances that felt a bit islamophobic to me - for example, there was one little throwaway comment that made it sound like women who wear burkas were all oppressed.
And lastly, Solnit kept name-dropping her other essays in these essays, which I totally would've been fine with if it'd happened once or twice, but she kept doing it throughout all the essays, and it just got a bit too much and egotistical.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence