Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
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Description: In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note— because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, “He’s trying to kill me!” This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf ’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women.
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Oct 19, 2014 Paul Bryant Rated it: really liked it Shelves: the-misogyny-series This book is so depressing that I had to read this one at the same time to prevent me from spiralling down into despair. You may have heard of the title essay, which is funny and deservedly famous. But in the second essay the floor suddenly drops away and we’re falling into the vile pit of misogyny. The second essay is called “The Longest war” and is about men hating, silencing, injuring and killing women. Ah misogyny, men hating women. It’s like oil – every time you think we may be running out o This book is so depressing that I had to read this one at the same time to prevent me from spiralling down into despair. You may have heard of the title essay, which is funny and deservedly famous. But in the second essay the floor suddenly drops away and we’re falling into the vile pit of misogyny. The second essay is called “The Longest war” and is about men hating, silencing, injuring and killing women. Ah misogyny, men hating women. It’s like oil – every time you think we may be running out of it vast new reserves are discovered. Recent new geysers of hatred have been spouting forth from the internet and why? Because some women just do not know their place. Imagine – some of these women actually had the temerity tosuggest a woman’s portrait should feature on a British bank note. So naturally, they got rape and death threats . Well, what did they expect? Then some other women had the gall to suggest thatmany computer games are misogynistic. After the by now standard rape ‘n’ death threats camethe bombing threats. The writer Caitlin Moran has a reply to those who say aw, stop whining, just block the trolls. For those who say “why complain -just block” on a big troll day it can be 50 violent /rape messages an hour. Gotta love that internet. In other countries the men don’t just talk the talk, they shoot 15 year old girls in the head if they have the temerity to speak publicly about the education of girls. When they’re not actually raping & killing & trolling, men make movies in which men torture women to death, movies which some other men ban and others enjoy. Here's a few interesting
titles (there are sooooooo many more) http://www.movie-censorship.com/repor... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Set-Pi... http://www.horrorsociety.com/2011/01/... http://severed-cinema.com/g-reviews/g... Well, in the interest of fairness, some women also like this sort of movie…. Here’s Goodreads author J A Saare explaining where she’s coming from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCUqMf... But I’d say it’s mostly men, by a long long shot. Anyway. Rebecca Solnit lays this all on the line in this series of essays. But - maybe by sheer will power, she manages to end on an optimistic note, which I was very grateful for. She says that at least this is all known about & made public now; and the genie of feminism can’t be put back in the bottle, and even though the road is 1000 miles long the woman walking down it isn’t at mile one. I don’t know how far she has to go, but I know she’s not going backward, despite it all – and she’s not walking alone. Hmmm. Here's a little bit of good news from Britain : we have begun to jail men who threaten rape. Labour MP Stella Creasy tells of ordeal as Twitter troll is jailed for 18 weeks STELLA Creasy has described feeling "frightened" and "terrified" as a result of a hate campaign by a Twitter troll who was today jailed for 18 weeks. Delivery driver Peter Nunn bombarded Stella Creasy with menacing messages including threats to rape her. Nunn, 33, used social media for a series of vile statements after Ms Creasy supported a bid to put Austen on the bank note. The campaign was launched by feminist Caroline Criado-Perez, a court heard. She was also a target of threats from Nunn, City of London Magistrates' Court was told. He retweeted one sickening message to the Walthamstow MP, which read: "You better watch your back, I'm going to rape you at 8pm and put the video all over." Ms Creasy told 5 News Tonight: "I can't pretend that it hasn't had an impact on me. Of course it makes you much more wary of strangers, it makes you frightened, it makes you terrified because somebody has fixated on you and wants to cause you suffering and pain. Nunn, from Bristol, was found guilty at an earlier hearing of sending indecent, obscene and menacing messages by a public electronic network between July 28 and August 5 last year. Jailing him for 18 weeks today, District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe dismissed Nunn's defence that the messages were meant to be satirical. She said: "This was extreme language with substantial threats to Ms Creasy. I do not accept that this was free speech and jokes," she added. Earlier the judge had remarked: "I can't see that this is anything other than grossly offensive and menacing. "I am told that a lot of people joke about rape, I don't know if I'm sure that this is a common form of humour in any form of media."
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Kristin It is very true. I'm a white woman and I've never voted with my demographic. 53% of us voted for that orange fascist. It makes me physically ill to th It is very true. I'm a white woman and I've never voted with my demographic. 53% of us voted for that orange fascist. It makes me physically ill to think about. But I think a lot of people are missing a particularly upsetting and horrifying fact about internalized misogyny here. When you are told, as I was from babyhood, that you are in fact less than your opposite gender; when being female is seen as a liability and weakness at best; as evil at worst; when you are told this not only by your culture, your society, but also your religion and the leaders of all of these, which generally do not even allow women places in leadership; when everything you do is judged as wanting; when your intellect is treated as an anomaly that marks you as 'strange' and undesirable--or anyway, as a fluke; when you take so much shit from such a young age because of WHAT YOU WERE BORN, when so much is denied to you because of that fact: here's the thing: you begin to believe you deserve it. One of the "clever" things women do to survive this is to dissociate from their femininity: hence, the Cool Girls. this is what happens when you are abused your whole life. Dissociation is a human survival response. do you prefer to see just how hated you are by the people who are supposed to love you, including your own father and brothers? Or do you rationalize like a motherfucker and say, "No. I'm different from them," for your own survival and become and Honorary Man? Many, many, many of us do. Especially if they are faced with menfolk who refuse to listen to them. And that's who voted for Trump. The "bad" women deserve Trump's hatred and humiliation. They don't. They're honorary Men--you know, good girls. This is all based in make-believe, but it's the only way a lot of women even survive the hazing of being female. We dissociate. The irony is these women are victims. They're victims that are so scared that they won't even see their own victimization. There is no way out for them. they will never be heard. So of course they join their oppressor. What other way is there for them? You never dare blame white men--the hue and cry will drown out all other sound in the universe. No one knows that better than women. I sometimes think I hate those women. Especially times like now, but the truth is they're some of the most pathetic people on earth. They will suffer greatly for what they did; but they're already suffering really badly. Those women's rates of domestic abuse and sex assault are a lot higher, generally, than more educated, monied white women who voted for Clinton. No one is more pathetic than people who have been systematically taught that they are nothing who then believe it. That we make fun of the coping mechanisms and blame them when there is CLEARLY a much bigger villain here--and yes, it's white men--is telling. People don't choose their own oppression without something being terribly wrong. Many American slaves believed that slavery was naturally and correctly their lot in life. it's all they were ever taught. It's the ones who didn't who were the miracles.
I can't take this toxic country anymore.
Nov 10, 2016 09:56AM
Hannah Thanks for summing that up, Kristin. It's why I hate it so much when men say "you're not like other girls" as if it's a compliment. Like, "wow, you co Thanks for summing that up, Kristin. It's why I hate it so much when men say "you're not like other girls" as if it's a compliment. Like, "wow, you could almost be one of us." Ugggggh please.
Nov 10, 2016 08:07PM
