Men Explain Things to Me

by Rebecca Solnit

There’s a happy medium between these poles to which the genders have been pushed, a warm equatorial belt of give and take where we should all meet.

Being told that, categorically, he knows what he’s talking about and she doesn’t, however minor a part of any given conversation, perpetuates the ugliness of this world and holds back its light.

because when you say lone gunman, everyone talks about loners and guns but not about men—and