Post by Désirée L.

This is a Sunday special: a recent conversation with a professional acquaintance (in a different field) brought me back to this essay I read a while ago and which remains as relevant and entertaining as it was then. Enjoy it!. Disclaimer: I honour all the great men I am privileged to have been and am working with. This essay isn’t in any way related to you—though your brilliance would allow for fine entertainment ;-) “…#mansplaining is not a universal flaw of the #gender, just the intersection between #overconfidence and #cluelessness where some portion of that gender gets stuck… #confrontational #confidence of the totally #ignorant is, in my experience, #gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking about. Some men...” Rebecca Solnit "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. Things have certainly gotten better, but this war won’t end in my lifetime." Rebecca Solnit https://lnkd.in/g9YiJGUT