About This Book

Feminism is an endeavor to change something deeply rooted in many cultures, institutions, and households. Men Explain Things to Me is a collection of essays that explore the power dynamics between men and women, and the violence that is used to silence women. It highlights the need to recognize the truth of women's experiences and to value their voices. It also calls for a revolt of the imagination and a liberation from systems like capitalism that prioritize competition and ruthlessness. Ultimately, the book is a call to action for a more equitable world.

Top Highlights

• Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to exist.
• billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.
• But explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.
• Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.
• Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.