Kate Manne
@katemanne.bsky.social
Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
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She said something great
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
She said something great
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This essay is excellent.
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This essay is excellent.
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Par notikumiem ASV, taču lietderīgi palasīt arī SK sakarā.
"How much easier to say that you think women are not that smart, or that we’re rather bad people, than to admit that male dominance suited you and that you’ll really miss it. And those who’ll miss it, unfortunately, include certain women."
"How much easier to say that you think women are not that smart, or that we’re rather bad people, than to admit that male dominance suited you and that you’ll really miss it. And those who’ll miss it, unfortunately, include certain women."
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Par notikumiem ASV, taču lietderīgi palasīt arī SK sakarā.
"How much easier to say that you think women are not that smart, or that we’re rather bad people, than to admit that male dominance suited you and that you’ll really miss it. And those who’ll miss it, unfortunately, include certain women."
"How much easier to say that you think women are not that smart, or that we’re rather bad people, than to admit that male dominance suited you and that you’ll really miss it. And those who’ll miss it, unfortunately, include certain women."
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Read this! "It’s unfortunate that Andrews hasn’t understood a distinction as basic as (1) what women are like versus (2) what feminine-coded character traits are."
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Read this! "It’s unfortunate that Andrews hasn’t understood a distinction as basic as (1) what women are like versus (2) what feminine-coded character traits are."
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Male Dominance is in Ruins
And many conservative men—and some women—are none too happy about it.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Read this! "It’s unfortunate that Andrews hasn’t understood a distinction as basic as (1) what women are like versus (2) what feminine-coded character traits are."
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Read this! "It’s unfortunate that Andrews hasn’t understood a distinction as basic as (1) what women are like versus (2) what feminine-coded character traits are."
katemanne.substack.com/p/male-domin...
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Brilliant piece! Subscribed.
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Brilliant piece! Subscribed.
Fine. I said something katemanne.substack.com/p/male-domin...
Male Dominance is in Ruins
And many conservative men—and some women—are none too happy about it.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Fine. I said something katemanne.substack.com/p/male-domin...
Why the Trump administration would rather give poor folks cheap Ozempic than SNAP benefits to buy food katemanne.substack.com/p/let-them-e...
Let Them Eat Nothing
A White House press conference that defied parody—and reveals something much deeper about the Trump administration.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Why the Trump administration would rather give poor folks cheap Ozempic than SNAP benefits to buy food katemanne.substack.com/p/let-them-e...
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Must Read
This conversation will break your heart and help you truly understand the bleakness of the post-Dobbs landscape katemanne.substack.com/p/being-preg...
Being Pregnant in America Has Become Unbearable
A conversation with Irin Carmon about her brilliant new book.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Must Read
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@katemanne.bsky.social perfectly encapsulates why these people keep doing things that most of us find incomprehensible.
Let Them Eat Nothing
A White House press conference that defied parody—and reveals something much deeper about the Trump administration.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
@katemanne.bsky.social perfectly encapsulates why these people keep doing things that most of us find incomprehensible.
This conversation will break your heart and help you truly understand the bleakness of the post-Dobbs landscape katemanne.substack.com/p/being-preg...
Being Pregnant in America Has Become Unbearable
A conversation with Irin Carmon about her brilliant new book.
katemanne.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This conversation will break your heart and help you truly understand the bleakness of the post-Dobbs landscape katemanne.substack.com/p/being-preg...
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Title should read "Another white male abuses his way into a comfortable & sheltered life." @katemanne.bsky.social calls it "himpathy." Maybe we should also call it the "Epstein Effect." #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say
The former prince remains under scrutiny as Buckingham Palace finalises plans for his future as a commoner
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November 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Title should read "Another white male abuses his way into a comfortable & sheltered life." @katemanne.bsky.social calls it "himpathy." Maybe we should also call it the "Epstein Effect." #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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It's time to name the dynamic where (some) men don’t just dominate conversations. They desert them when it suits them, going eerily silent as dating and romantic partners and as parents katemanne.substack.com/p/men-not-ta...
Men Not Talking
Men fail to ask women questions in the pick-up line as much as on dates. It’s not because they don’t know how to.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's time to name the dynamic where (some) men don’t just dominate conversations. They desert them when it suits them, going eerily silent as dating and romantic partners and as parents katemanne.substack.com/p/men-not-ta...
An extraordinary excerpt from an extraordinary book by @manongarcia.bsky.social. No paywall katemanne.substack.com/p/living-wit...
Living with Men
An excerpt from Manon Garcia's extraordinary new book on the Pelicot trial
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October 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
An extraordinary excerpt from an extraordinary book by @manongarcia.bsky.social. No paywall katemanne.substack.com/p/living-wit...
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Feminist philosopher and writer extraordinaire @katemanne.bsky.social has published an excerpt of Living with Men in her Substack, I hope this will make you want to read the book!
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Living with Men
An excerpt from Manon Garcia's extraordinary new book on the Pelicot trial
katemanne.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Feminist philosopher and writer extraordinaire @katemanne.bsky.social has published an excerpt of Living with Men in her Substack, I hope this will make you want to read the book!
katemanne.substack.com/p/living-wit...
katemanne.substack.com/p/living-wit...
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Boundaries are an imperfect, individualistic bandaid for a fundamentally social problem: women are asked for too much, and punished for refusing katemanne.substack.com/p/our-bounda...
Our Boundaries Will Not Save Us
On the exhaustion and risks of our constant naysaying labor
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October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Boundaries are an imperfect, individualistic bandaid for a fundamentally social problem: women are asked for too much, and punished for refusing katemanne.substack.com/p/our-bounda...
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I thought this interview was fantastic. It gave me some new language for some of what I think about around working and parenting.
Straight women are being squeezed from every direction, with care demands and work demands ramping up at the exact same time. Meanwhile, the data shows men doing no more at home than forty years ago katemanne.substack.com/p/this-conve...
This Conversation May Change Your Life—and Your Marriage
Corinne Low's groundbreaking new book, Having It All, provides the set of tools women need to get a better deal at work and at home.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I thought this interview was fantastic. It gave me some new language for some of what I think about around working and parenting.
Straight women are being squeezed from every direction, with care demands and work demands ramping up at the exact same time. Meanwhile, the data shows men doing no more at home than forty years ago katemanne.substack.com/p/this-conve...
This Conversation May Change Your Life—and Your Marriage
Corinne Low's groundbreaking new book, Having It All, provides the set of tools women need to get a better deal at work and at home.
katemanne.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Straight women are being squeezed from every direction, with care demands and work demands ramping up at the exact same time. Meanwhile, the data shows men doing no more at home than forty years ago katemanne.substack.com/p/this-conve...
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"Even if a political cause isn’t popular now, that doesn’t mean it can’t be, with the right moral leadership.
Until it’s done, we fight. We take *pride* in fighting for people like Sylvia. And that is how we make the alternative of transphobia as shameful as it needs to be."
Until it’s done, we fight. We take *pride* in fighting for people like Sylvia. And that is how we make the alternative of transphobia as shameful as it needs to be."
When progressive politicians like Mamdani lead--and call up, not out, appealing to voters' best selves--they win katemanne.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...
This is How We Win
The role of pride and calling up—not calling out—in bigotry abolitionism.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"Even if a political cause isn’t popular now, that doesn’t mean it can’t be, with the right moral leadership.
Until it’s done, we fight. We take *pride* in fighting for people like Sylvia. And that is how we make the alternative of transphobia as shameful as it needs to be."
Until it’s done, we fight. We take *pride* in fighting for people like Sylvia. And that is how we make the alternative of transphobia as shameful as it needs to be."
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"Calling shame without shaming"
When progressive politicians like Mamdani lead--and call up, not out, appealing to voters' best selves--they win katemanne.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...
This is How We Win
The role of pride and calling up—not calling out—in bigotry abolitionism.
katemanne.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"Calling shame without shaming"
When progressive politicians like Mamdani lead--and call up, not out, appealing to voters' best selves--they win katemanne.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...
This is How We Win
The role of pride and calling up—not calling out—in bigotry abolitionism.
katemanne.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
When progressive politicians like Mamdani lead--and call up, not out, appealing to voters' best selves--they win katemanne.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...
We are in the middle of a moral revolution, which inevitably involves making racism, misogyny, and transphobia shameful. The Trumpian flight from shame is predictable. Throwing the victims of bigotry under the bus is not an option. We have to stay the course katemanne.substack.com/p/the-necess...
The Necessity of Shame
Shame is dangerous, yes. That doesn’t mean it’s dispensable.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We are in the middle of a moral revolution, which inevitably involves making racism, misogyny, and transphobia shameful. The Trumpian flight from shame is predictable. Throwing the victims of bigotry under the bus is not an option. We have to stay the course katemanne.substack.com/p/the-necess...
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From @katemanne.bsky.social:
"Shame is the likeliest source of the next, and much-needed, moral revolution. And there is an alternative to the flight from shame that can be emphasized and exploited: learning to live with moments of shame, and learning from their pain in ways that are redemptive."
"Shame is the likeliest source of the next, and much-needed, moral revolution. And there is an alternative to the flight from shame that can be emphasized and exploited: learning to live with moments of shame, and learning from their pain in ways that are redemptive."
The Necessity of Shame
Shame is dangerous, yes. That doesn’t mean it’s dispensable.
katemanne.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
From @katemanne.bsky.social:
"Shame is the likeliest source of the next, and much-needed, moral revolution. And there is an alternative to the flight from shame that can be emphasized and exploited: learning to live with moments of shame, and learning from their pain in ways that are redemptive."
"Shame is the likeliest source of the next, and much-needed, moral revolution. And there is an alternative to the flight from shame that can be emphasized and exploited: learning to live with moments of shame, and learning from their pain in ways that are redemptive."
I have a theory that fascist cringe will be the enduring aesthetic legacy of the Trump era katemanne.substack.com/p/fascist-cr...
Fascist Cringe: A Theory
Why Pete Hegseth’s performance of shamelessly toxic masculinity rings so hollow
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October 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I have a theory that fascist cringe will be the enduring aesthetic legacy of the Trump era katemanne.substack.com/p/fascist-cr...
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"There is a widespread view that failing to put yourself in the shoes of another person—failing to empathise—leads to dehumanisation, and dehumanisation is at the heart of cruelty and evil."
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Cruelty and Evil
A common view of evil sees dehumanisation as fundamental. Yale psychologist Paul Bloom argues, however, that the picture may not be so simple. He recommends the best books to understand evil and…
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October 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"There is a widespread view that failing to put yourself in the shoes of another person—failing to empathise—leads to dehumanisation, and dehumanisation is at the heart of cruelty and evil."
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