Rebecca Solnit on #MeToo, Mass Movements and the 10th Anniversary of "Men Explain Things to Me"

This month marks the 10th anniversary of Rebecca Solnit's groundbreaking essay, "Men Explain Things to Me." In 2008, Solnit wrote, "Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. " Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It's the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence." The essay has also been credited with launching the term "mansplaining," though Rebecca Solnit did not coin the phrase. For more, we're joined now by Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian and activist. She is the author of 20 books.