Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in For Women, Feminist, and Most Recommended Books.
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...
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