Shane M.

Long on “Splaining,” Short on a meaningful or helpful philosophy

Revisado: 07-26-23

I anticipated more meaningful dialog on effective approaches to tackling meaningful issues, but was inundated with the author’s pessimism and lens of anti-most things: anti-establishment, anti-capitalism, anti-white, anti-masculinity and anti-reason that spews random tidbits of data, but ignores the myriad of contradicting facts out dates that would refute many of her underlying claims.

Spends an entire book doing exactly the same thing she despises - “Splaining”.

Raises important questions, but seems fixated on everything anecdotally wrong in the world excessively, akin to pharmaceutical companies inflating the dangers of curses or disease, or defense contractors exaggerating and clamoring for war. Seems to add fuel to a fire and increase polarity and divisiveness intentionally to validate her perspective, versus actually developing a framework to build meaningful coalitions that can be true change agents.

I suppose it’s natural for a career academic to become transfixed on anecdotal information to support a preconceived mindset versus challenging assumptions, considering different perspectives, and removing any and all nuance, but it makes her arguments general and weak kneed.

She’s appalled by the white male privileged patriarchy that allowed Woody Allen and Harvey Weinstein to victimize children and women, focusing solely on race, but remains loudly silent on the large issue of corruption amongst powerful and elite if the perpetrators isn’t white or male - Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, OJ Simpson, or Ghislaine Maxwell to make just a few.

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