Rebecca Solnit

Men Explain Things to Me

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  • Widyahas quoted5 years ago
    There’s more that we need to be liberated from: maybe a system that prizes competition and ruthlessness and short-term thinking and rugged individualism, a system that serves environmental destruction and limitless consumption so well—that arrangement you can call capitalism.
  • Dani CyChas quoted3 years ago
    More than twenty years ago, Susan Faludi published a milestone of a book called Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    It takes time. There are milestones, but so many people are traveling along that road at their own pace, and some come along later, and others are trying to stop everyone who’s moving forward, and a few are marching backward or are confused about what direction they should go in. Even in our own lives we regress, fail, continue, try again, get lost, and sometimes make a great leap, find what we didn’t know we were looking for, and yet continue to contain contradictions for generations.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    about sixty-six thousand women are killed by men annually, worldwide, in the specific circumstances they began to call “femicide.”
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    A Presbyterian pastor who had performed a number of such marriages told me, “I remember coming to this realization when I was meeting with same-sex couples before performing their ceremonies when it was legal in California. The old patriarchal default settings did not apply in their relationships, and it was a glorious thing to witness.”
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    The British judge William Blackstone wrote in 1765, in his influential commentary on English common law and, later, American law, “By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband.”
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    and there’s just no maternal equivalent to the 11 percent of rapes that are by fathers or stepfathers.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    Oh, and former vice-presidential candidate and current congressman Paul Ryan (R-Manistan) is reintroducing a bill that would give states the right to ban abortions and might even conceivably allow a rapist to sue his victim for having one.
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