![]() She has arrived first and waves me over from her window seat. Some women, too, I discover during my lunch with Solnit at a small neighbourhood bistro - Chez Maman East - in the low-key San Francisco neighbourhood of Potrero Hill. ![]() “Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they are talking about,” she wrote in the follow-up bestseller, offering up a small softener: “Some men.” It’s the piece that brought us “mansplaining”, a phrase she coined after the host of a fancy party in Aspen tried to explain a “very important” new book about 19th-century photography to her - without giving her enough conversational airtime to explain that she was, in fact, the book’s author. ![]() But in this age of gender polarisation and short attention spans, it’s perhaps no surprise that her breakthrough work was a snack-sized essay titled “Men Explain Things to Me”. Activist, journalist, writer, authority on everything from empathy to the history of walking - Rebecca Solnit is something of a Renaissance woman. ![]()
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