https://wiki4men.com/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Template%3ASolnit 2026-04-29T19:47:43Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.3 https://wiki4men.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Solnit&diff=101067&oldid=prev 2026-02-02T13:13:38Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:13, 2 February 2026</td> </tr><tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The term mansplaining was inspired by an essay, "[[Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way]]", written by author [[Rebecca Solnit]] and published on TomDispatch.com on 13 April 2008. In the essay, Solnit told an anecdote about a man at a party who said he had heard she had written some books. She began to talk about her most recent, on Eadweard Muybridge, whereupon the man allegedly cut her off and asked if she had "heard about the very important Muybridge book that came out this year". The man has apparently not considered that it might be Solnit's book. Solnit did not use the word mansplaining in the essay, but she described the phenomenon as "something every woman knows".</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The term <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>mansplaining<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins> was inspired by an essay, "[[Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way]]", written by author [[Rebecca Solnit]] and published on TomDispatch.com on 13 April 2008. In the essay, Solnit told an anecdote about a man at a party who said he had heard she had written some books. She began to talk about her most recent, on Eadweard Muybridge, whereupon the man allegedly cut her off and asked if she had "heard about the very important Muybridge book that came out this year". The man has apparently not considered that it might be Solnit's book. Solnit did not use the word mansplaining in the essay, but she described the phenomenon as "something every woman knows".</div></td> </tr> </table>

Robert Brockway https://wiki4men.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Solnit&diff=94089&oldid=prev 2025-05-29T05:12:58Z

<p>Created page with &quot;The term mansplaining was inspired by an essay, &quot;<a href="/wiki/Men_Explain_Things_to_Me:_Facts_Didn%27t_Get_in_Their_Way" title="Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn&#039;t Get in Their Way">Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn&#039;t Get in Their Way</a>&quot;, written by author <a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Solnit" title="Rebecca Solnit">Rebecca Solnit</a> and published on TomDispatc...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The term mansplaining was inspired by an essay, &quot;[[Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn&#039;t Get in Their Way]]&quot;, written by author [[Rebecca Solnit]] and published on TomDispatch.com on 13 April 2008. In the essay, Solnit told an anecdote about a man at a party who said he had heard she had written some books. She began to talk about her most recent, on Eadweard Muybridge, whereupon the man allegedly cut her off and asked if she had &quot;heard about the very important Muybridge book that came out this year&quot;. The man has apparently not considered that it might be Solnit&#039;s book. Solnit did not use the word mansplaining in the essay, but she described the phenomenon as &quot;something every woman knows&quot;.</div>

Robert Brockway