"One evening over dinner in March 2008, I began to joke, as I often had before, about writing an essay called "Men Explain Things to Me." … I wrote it in one sitting early the next morning. … It's circulated like nothing else I've done. … A website named "Academic Men Explain Things to Me" arose, and hundreds of university women shared their stories of being patronized, belittled, talked over, and more. The term "mansplaining" was coined soon after the piece appeared, and I was sometimes credited with it. In fact, I had nothing to do with its actual creation, though my essay, along with all the men who embodied the idea, apparently inspired it. … By 2012, the term "mansplained"—one of the New York Timess words of the year for 2010—was being used in mainstream political journalism."
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Rebecca Solnit, postscript to "Men Explain Things to Me" (2008), in Men Explain Things to Me (2014)
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