Kate Manne
Writer & philosopher at Cornell, author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (2018) & Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Crown/Penguin, Aug 2020). She/her
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The new age of misogyny
It is logical that Kate Manne, a professor of philosophy at Cornell University, should begin her book Entitled, a forensic exploration of male privilege and modern misogyny, with the 2018 Senate hearing on the sexual assault allegations against...
Kate Manne
"I want to press it on every schoolgirl who thinks that feminism is uncool, any woman who thinks the most important gender battles are won, pretty much every man I know, and say, have you thought about this?" Good of Entitled, along with Laura Bates' book.
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Mannesplaining
Does a tendency to reflexively empathize with the feelings and failures of men explain the structure of society?
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Kate Manne
I'm reluctant to give any oxygen to this silly, uncharitable, contemptuous review, but maybe it's incumbent on me to respond, now it's getting some attention (thanks largely to the dubious behavior of Arc Digital.) A thread
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Proud Boys say they are ‘standing down and standing by’ after Trump’s debate callout
On the Proud Boys’ account on the social media app Telegram, the group appeared to take the statement as marching orders.
Why The Court Matters: RBG’s Legacy & the Fight She Leaves Behind
A conversion with Kimberlé Crenshaw, Sherrilyn Ifill, Suzanne Goldberg, Devon Carbado, Cheryl Harris, Melissa Murray, Erwin Chemerinsky.
Q&A with Kate Manne
Kate Manne is an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the philosophy department, at the Sage School where she has been teaching since 2013, and where Manne has written about
The false link between Amy Coney Barrett and The Handmaid’s Tale, explained
They’re not actually connected. But the story spread anyway.
Amy Coney Barrett’s expected nomination to Supreme Court is a perfect reflection of the divisions in U.S. politics
The Indiana justice is dubbed ‘the nominee social conservatives have been waiting and fighting for’ - a judicial originalist, the opposite of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s profile as a judicial activist
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women By Kate Manne — Review
A timely examination of how misogyny affects all aspects of life in Western society, including sexual encounters, reproductive rights, health care, politics, knowledge, power, and relationship dynamics
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender. Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance. It asked how we define “the...
How Society is Shaped by Male Entitlement
In the wake of the budding #MeToo movement in 2017, feminist philosopher Kate Manne published her timely and critically-acclaimed debut about misogyny, Down Girl. She's back this year with a new book,
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How The Pandemic Has Exacerbated The Gender Divide In Household Labor
Kate Manne
"If so many people are working from home, might the silver lining of the pandemic be that the invisible labor that traditionally has fallen on women becomes more visible to men, and spur equal participation?”
The result? A resounding no."
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Why are men still explaining things to women?
Mansplaining illuminates a much deeper problem than the bore of patronising monologues
COVID exposed something about consumerism
Two philosophers share what they believe COVID panic buying reflected on our society, who we are, and what we value.
A Portrait of the Breakdown of Hope and Meaning in America
Even a glance at the
Kate Manne
"The depiction of the film’s subjects is similarly tender and compassionate, a compelling look at alienated men trying, and ultimately succeeding, to overcome the resentment and aimlessness of inceldom."
Himpathy for the incel yet again. Thanks Jacobin.
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Revenge of the patriarchs | The Conversationalist
"There is this somewhat new phenomenon of men who believe women are perfectly competent and will take advantage of their talents, but who will smack them down if they try to assert their authority over a patriarchal figure." — Kate Manne
The Glorious RBG
I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.
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Kate Manne
"Ginsburg offered an addendum to Martin Luther King Jr.’s suggestion that the arc of history eventually bent toward justice: “if there is a steadfast commitment to see the task through to completion.” She was thus committed."
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