Saturday, April 6, 2019

Philosopher Kate Manne on 'Himpathy,' Donald Trump, and Rethinking the Logic of Misogyny

https://jezebel.com/philosopher-kate-manne-on-himpathy-donald-trump-and-r-1822639677

"What I end up doing is making two conceptual moves. One is to move an agent-center or perpetrator-center picture of misogyny to one that is victim or target-centered. So, it's about what women face, not what men feel. The other is to make it a more explicitly politically-centered conception so it's what women face not because they're women, represented as such in men's mind but because they're women in a man's world and within historical patriarchy. That will mean that in as much that they violate patriarchal norms and expectations, there's a heightened risk of being subject to hostile, hateful, aversive treatment. It's the hatred you face, not the hatred he feels."