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A review by heathyn
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
1.0
I haven’t read any feminist nonfiction and this was a horrible book to begin with.
I have no idea what this book meant to achieve. The writing was all over the place and towards the end some of the sections were nonsensical to what I assumed to be the point of the book.
Some of the takes in this book also left me a little wide-eyed:
“Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality but it does have a gender.”
Like… excuse me? What was that??
Anyways, I have moved onto “Hood Feminism” by Mikki Kendall and I’m already sighing in relief at the juxtaposition:
“A one-size-fits-all approach to feminism is damaging, because it alienates the very people it is supposed to serve, without ever managing to support them. For women of color, the expectation that we prioritize gender over race, that we treat the patriarchy as something that gives all men the same power, leaves many of us feeling isolated.” The difference is very telling.
And before I leave you… Rebecca, why the forty different shout-outs to your other books throughout this entire book? Was this an advertisement or an activist essay? Jesus
I have no idea what this book meant to achieve. The writing was all over the place and towards the end some of the sections were nonsensical to what I assumed to be the point of the book.
Some of the takes in this book also left me a little wide-eyed:
“Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality but it does have a gender.”
Like… excuse me? What was that??
Anyways, I have moved onto “Hood Feminism” by Mikki Kendall and I’m already sighing in relief at the juxtaposition:
“A one-size-fits-all approach to feminism is damaging, because it alienates the very people it is supposed to serve, without ever managing to support them. For women of color, the expectation that we prioritize gender over race, that we treat the patriarchy as something that gives all men the same power, leaves many of us feeling isolated.” The difference is very telling.
And before I leave you… Rebecca, why the forty different shout-outs to your other books throughout this entire book? Was this an advertisement or an activist essay? Jesus