The Hopeful Feminist (with Rebecca Solnit)

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Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

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4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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CW: Sexual assault and violence against women. If you, or someone you know, has experienced sexual violence, please call the RAINN hotline: 800.656.HOPE (4673). It’s never too late to get help. It’s no secret that most women live in fear of violence. Nearly every week, there’s a news story showcasing the most gruesome examples of it, like the woman who was killed for jogging in Queens, or the countless number of ‘Rejection Murders’ men commit after a woman says “no.” This week, author of Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit, joins Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) to discuss her new memoir: Recollections of My nullxistence. Together, they dream of a world where we don’t have to sit our daughters down and give them a never ending list of safety tips. They talk about what it’s like to grow up in our patriarchal culture, where giving those warnings seems more effective than stopping men from committing acts of violence. Finally, Rebecca reminds us that as much as violent and powerful men want to stop our voices, they will not be able to hold us down forever. Thanks to our sponsors! quip, makers of the quip electric toothbrush wants you to know the one single discovery that matters most for your dental care. It is simply this, that if you have good habits, you are good. Join over THREE MILLION healthy mouths and get quip today, starting at TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS. And if you go to GETQUIP.com/FRIENDS, RIGHT NOW, you’ll get your first refill FREE. We deserve to know what we’re putting in our bodies and why, that’s why Ritual’s founder is on a mission to reinvent the vitamin industry. Ritual left out mystery additives, synthetic fillers, and shady extras that can be found in some traditional multivitamins. Get 10% off during your first three months at ritual.com/FRIENDS Anything you can do at the Post Office you can do at Stamps.com. Their on-demand postage means you can skip that trip to the Post Office. Get a special offer that includes a 4-week trial PLUS free postage AND a digital scale without any long-term commitment. Just go to Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in FRIENDS

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox. Welcome to With Friends Like These. This week's guest, Rebecca
0:10.6	Solnet, may forever be associated with the word man-splaining. She did not invent the
0:17.1	word, but it came into popular use around the same time that her book, Men Explained
0:23.4	Things To Me, came out. And they both prompted the national conversation, which I suppose
0:29.4	we have always been having, are still having. And in a way, the fact that she is associated
0:35.3	with this word, with this idea, to have this iconic status, I suppose that could be considered
0:43.2	a good thing. But as Solnet observes in her current book, recollections of my non-existence,
0:51.1	when art remains relevant to contemporary audiences, it's because its critique is still relevant.
0:58.8	The problem the author grappled with is still a problem. Solnet's new book is a memoir
1:05.9	of sorts, though it is also about, and it is mostly about, violence against women. If
1:12.4	you are not in a space where you can hear a discussion about that, then please hold
1:16.3	off on listening to our conversation until you are. But I hope you can listen eventually,
1:23.0	because she is amazing and, unfortunately, quite relevant.
1:31.0	Rebecca, welcome to the show. Wonderful to be here. Thank you so much.
1:37.8	So I know you've been on your book tour, and I have noticed that people have taken that
1:43.6	opportunity to talk to you about some current events, because a lot of what you write about
1:48.2	has relevancy to current events, but I wanted to let you know that I am not particularly
1:53.4	interested in talking to you about headlines. There is, unfortunately, a lot in your book
1:59.5	that is Evergreen. But one of the things I really loved, one of the lessons I feel like
2:05.2	I learned from your book was the idea that if something remains, if a piece of art remains
2:09.3	relevant in Evergreen, that's because the problem it existed to solve or to comment on is
2:15.7	still with us. Absolutely. I joke that men could make all my feminist writing obsolete
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