The moment Men in Black writer Ed Solomon was accused of ‘mansplaining’ his own film is out of this world

The worst thing about mansplaining – apart from when people are actually mansplaining – is when people are accused of ‘mansplaining’ when it really isn’t mansplaining at all.

We only mention this after this glorious moment involving Men in Black writer Ed Solomon went viral on Reddit.

Solomon, a writer, producer and director who also wrote the Bill & Ted films, was in a cafe when he overheard two women talking about – you’re way ahead of us – Men in Black.

At the cafe where I’m writing the people next to me were disagreeing about the origins of Men in Black & I said “If you’d like, I could clear that up for you” & one responded: “I’m sorry, we do not need an old white male’s mansplanation.” So I apologized and that was that.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) October 15, 2019

(And by the way – it’s not like that was the first thing that was said; we’d actually exchanged small talk about various things over the course of their meal and my work.)

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) October 15, 2019

Okay, on the way out of the bathroom as they were leaving her friend apologized & said I just got them on a bad day for that, & I said no worries, no need to apologize & she said “Well regardless she shouldn’t’ve used the word ‘old’ like that” & I literally laughed out loud

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) October 15, 2019

Not that it matters, when I said I’d never heard the world manspanation, which I thought was a good word, she said she was pretty sure her friend had said “explanation” and so it’s possible I heard it incorrectly. (Does this matter? No. Should I get back to work? Yes.)

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) October 15, 2019

SHE WROTE TO ME! She saw this thread on Reddit and realized it was her and she reached out! Oh my god it was so sweet. And she really made me laugh at the end cause she said basically “PS which one of us was right, me or my friend?” (About their disagreement) (it was her)

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) October 15, 2019

And here are just a few of the things people said about it.

Heroic restraint on your part.

— local_celebrity (@local_celebrity) October 15, 2019

seriously one of my favorite things in the world is getting people to trash talk a movie I wrote without them knowing I wrote it. the worse the better. (I do this by agreeing – and then adding stuff)

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) October 15, 2019

I’m wondering if you’d said “Hi strangers I couldnt help but overhear your conversation and I am the guy who wrote MIB.” Because, unfortunately, many women have experienced too much interrupting mansplaining from random old white males who talk like they wrote MIB, but did not.

— Heather Gray (@hsgray) October 15, 2019

Or we could just assume the best from people and not immediately attack the man

— Po in the South (@jamiepos) October 15, 2019

Great point – but surely you made it up?!

— WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK (@JANUSZCZAK) October 16, 2019

No, this happened. Not as briefly as in a 280 character tweet. But yes

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) October 16, 2019

‘Their loss,’ said nthensome over on Reddit.

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Source Reddit u/nthensome