Last Updated on August 2, 2024 by pastor.rocklyn

Men Explain Things

Men Explain Things To Me is a 2014 essay collection by Rebecca Solnit. The identically named main essay led some young women to coin the term “mansplaining”.

Checkout the following links:

• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit  – Main Essay
  This is the full length version of the main essay. It was posted twice to TomDispatch.COM on 8/19/2012 and 8/28/2015. The essay appears twice, side by side, with identical introductions, but two different ‘preambles” from the editor. Read either column.
• Men Explain Things to Me – Wikipedia article
• Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit – September 1, 2015 (Amazon.com)
• Academic Men Explain Things To Me – Blog

More recently, while preparing for a sermon, I wanted to illustrate why narrative was such an important component of how God uses the Bible in our lives. I realized that theory of mind explains why we attribute motivations and feelings to characters in a narrative. Towards this end, I found a couple of videos that I used to explain the concept in our New Year’s Eve sermon.

Videos

Book TV: Rebecca Solnit, “Men Explain Things to Me”

This second video provides some broader insight into theory of mind.

Democracy Now: Rebecca Solnit on #MeToo, Mass Movements and the 10th Anniversary of “Men Explain Things to Me”