Writer Rebecca Solnit is the awful sort of virtue-signaling leftist woman whom one hopes never to meet, not on a sidewalk, not in an airplane terminal, not on a city park trail, not with a cat, not in a hat, though all of these scenarios are, as she informs us rather helpfully, possible if you live in the wrong kind of city, or even pass through it briefly.
You see a lot of her type these days. They are the ones complaining about mansplaining (a term Solnit is credited with inventing) while wearing # miniskirts and not much else in the commercials you can't skip on Hulu. They are your freshman (fresh-zee?) orientation instructors informing you that your first semester will be spent examining your white privilege. If you're especially unlucky, your brother (or sister) is dating one, and she's going to tell you and the rest of the family exactly what she thinks about Christopher Columbus at Thanksgiving dinner.