
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

Misogyny isn’t about hating or discriminating against women because they are women and thus attract suspicion and consternation. Misogyny is about exposing women to harm because our gender makes us beneath full consideration. Misogyny is primarily something we face, not something people feel in their hearts.
Kate Manne • Broken Bones: America’s Violent Indifference toward Women
The Origins of Wokeness
paulgraham.comThis is how misogyny works: take a hierarchy, any hierarchy, and use it to derogate a girl or woman.
Kate Manne • Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
In Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, philosopher Kate Manne describes a system in which one class of people,7 the “human givers,” are expected to offer their time, attention, affection, and bodies willingly, placidly, to the other class of people, the “human beings.”8 The implication in these terms is that human beings have a moral obligation to be
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