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A man spent twenty minutes explaining her own book to her—and she was too polite to interrupt him.
That moment changed everything.
The year was 2008. Rebecca Solnit, already an acclaimed writer and historian, was at a party in Aspen when a wealthy older man asked what she'd been working on.
She mentioned she'd just published a book about Eadweard Muybridge, the photographer.
His face lit up. "Have you heard about the very important Muybridge book that came out this year?"
Before she could respond, he launched into an enthusiastic explanation of this groundbreaking work. How significant it was. How she really should read it. How it completely changed the understanding of—
Her friend tried to interject: "That's her book."
He kept talking.
"That's her book," her friend said again, louder.
He continued explaining, undeterred, certain in his authority.
It took three attempts before he finally stopped. And even then, he didn't apologize. He just deflated slightly and changed the subject.
Rebecca went home and wrote an essay about it.
She called it "Men Explain Things to Me."
And with that essay, she gave the world a word for something women had experienced forever but had no name for: mansplaining.
The Pattern Behind the Party
The essay wasn't really about one pompous man at one party. It was about a pattern Rebecca had noticed her entire life: men explaining things to women who already know them. Men speaking with unearned authority. Men assuming their knowledge is superior, even when confronted with evidence to the contrary.
She wrote: "Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't."
Women everywhere read that sentence and felt seen.
Within years, "mansplaining" entered the Oxford English Dictionary—though Rebecca never used that exact word. She'd simply described the phenomenon with such clarity that someone else had to name it.
But the essay revealed something deeper than just annoying male behavior. It exposed a system.

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