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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". |
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". |
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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".