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Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
2.0

Genuinely good ideas and thoughts that I agree with, but the “Welcome to Manistan” line left such an ugly, sour taste in my mouth. I know times have changed since that particular essay was written (2013 I think), but it’s so incongruent with the thoughts in the last essay when zapatistas are brought up. It’s also very interesting that marriage equality needs to be clarified that feminism paved the way to it, but nothing about what paved the way to women’s suffrage………. Not my favorite book of feminist essays, but also not the worst. I loved where Rachel Carson (Silent Spring) was brought up as an example.