5/18/2023 0 Comments River of shadows solnit(“Punk is the apotheosis of a certain kind of hypersexualized, tough masculinity. She was dressed in all black, not a nod to her early punk-rock days. The place was largely empty at 9 a.m., but Solnit still made us hop tables, twice, in extreme deference to my recorder’s tape quality and the chipper couple we were first seated next to. We were deep into identical breakfasts over tepid coffee in Chelsea, on a frigid January Monday, and Solnit was telling me about her desk. “I’m going to talk about it until it’s over,” she said. She tells me about an assumption of conversion, where our tales and trauma are shared to convert: “An evangelical model.” Instead, she’s been repeating herself since she was a young woman to reaffirm and ground through terrible and healing conversation that we’re not crazy. Where had they been, she wondered? MeToo “will have gone too far when this stuff no longer happens, and until then, it hasn’t gone far enough,” she said. But Solnit found it interesting, the number of men who expressed shock and surprise at what had been happening around them. “Not everybody has acknowledged the reality of it.” MeToo cracked the door open for some acknowledgement to finally trickle through. “We overestimate what people know and the act of violence against women has infinite details,” she reminded me.
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