![]() 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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