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Women in the audience \u2013 picture this \u2013 you’re at a party and find yourself in a conversation with a man who proceeds to dominate the conversation on a topic that you happen to know a lot about. Except that the man who’s talking at you, has made the assumption that he knows far more than you because, perhaps simply because he’s a man. <\/p>\n
Perhaps he makes you question your own expertise with the force of his apparent authority. Or perhaps you see right through him. In any case, it’s a scenario that most women have at some point or another in their lives found yourselves in, whether you are an academic or a student, a computer technicians or a teacher, stay-at-home or working mother, a young woman or senior, a powerful politician or a factory worker. <\/p>\n
These days there’s a term for that experience \u2013 it’s having something “man-splained” to you. I certainly have had that experience many times and my guest Rebecca Solnit has also had it, so much so that she has written a book called Men Explain Things to Me. “Mansplaining” is a sexist phenomenon that is one end of a spectrum, on the other end of which is physical violence against women. <\/p>\n
GUEST: Rebecca Solnit has written more than a dozen books about politics, art, history, the environment, and much more, and has won a number of awards, and is a contributing editor Harper’s and a frequent contributor to Tom Dispatch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women in the audience \u2013 picture this \u2013 you’re at a party and find yourself in a conversation with a man who proceeds to dominate the conversation on a topic that you happen to know a lot about. Except that the man who’s talking at you, has made the assumption that he knows far more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40282,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40274\/revisions\/40282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}