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tiffanydasilva 's review for:
Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit
This is one of those required reads for everyone: male or female. There was one powerful statement that really stood out for me: "[Virginia Wolfe's] demands for liberation for women were not merely so they could do some of the institutional things men did (and women still do) but to have the freedom to roam geographically and imaginatively." It's so easy to see the progress we made and be happy about it and not press on, until you read a sentence like that. It became very clear why Solnit focused much of these essays on the rape & abuse women still suffer regularly - as women we still aren't safe, we still can't roam freely without fear and we're still being told things like "Don't dress provocatively and it won't happen to you." (As is, a woman dressed up at midnight was ASKED to be sexually assaulted.)
Solnit does a great job of comparing this images to the seemingly innocent ones; A male female discussion at a party which goes downhill after he begins to explain things to her, dismissing the fact she's an expert in the field they are discussing. It becomes clear that while we have taken the first of thousand steps, there is still a long road ahead in the fight for women's equality to men.
Solnit does a great job of comparing this images to the seemingly innocent ones; A male female discussion at a party which goes downhill after he begins to explain things to her, dismissing the fact she's an expert in the field they are discussing. It becomes clear that while we have taken the first of thousand steps, there is still a long road ahead in the fight for women's equality to men.