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Kate Manne

@katemanne.bsky.social
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Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at katemanne.substack.com. She/her

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 10h
Cornell police edited Jane Doe's statement. Are we in pitchforks and torches territory yet? I think we are close. "As we now know, Cornell police also condensed down Doe's statement, omitting crucial details including the fact that she said she was 100 percent confident she’d been raped."
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just read @katemanne.bsky.social ‘s fantastic piece in The Cut about the Cornell rape and she points out that students protesting conditions in Gaza were treated more harshly than the rapists and holy shit, this detail
One of these students was my own advisee, and having supported her throughout the the months-long case, I can state with confidence that she did nothing wrong. Moreover, she happens to be deaf and was suspended in part for being “unreasonably loud.” Privacy consideration
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Ugh 🏴‍☠️👻🏴‍☠️ @ajaxatax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"If you’re an outsider to American universities, you might think that students are simply out of control, and that disciplinary processes are similarly lax for other infringements. But that is not accurate." "Moreover, she happens to be deaf and was suspended in part for being 'unreasonably loud.'"
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“…what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. Cease to be a place where the consequences for sexual-assault victims are often greater than for the perpetrators.”
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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Grinnell has a required writing class for first-year students. As part of the class, we have to teach about academic honesty and avoiding plagiarism. Easy enough, I thought, until I got the first student question: "Why does Grinnell seem to take this so much more seriously than it does Title IX?"
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone employed at a postsecondary institution (& esp deans of students) should read Kate Manne's powerful essay: "Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. ... become a place where our sons are not initiated into rape culture."
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." Cornell philosophy prof @katemanne.bsky.social in The Cut:
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For all we wring our hands about social media use and its ill effects on mental health and use in cyberbullying, the greater crisis is that it sets young boys up for violence. But the Misogynistic Generation is unfortunately never going to be a bestseller katemanne.substack.com/p/your-adole...
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Adolescent Boys’ Favorites are Alleged Rapists
What the news about Clavicular says about the dire state of the boyosphere
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All the talk of women's overfunctioning papers over the real issue: straight men are underfunctioning on a grand scale and their wives pay the price katemanne.substack.com/p/when-husba...
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When Husbands Underfunction
Women’s heavy load equals men’s lightness
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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apropos of Macklemore: a succinct description of how many women and non-white folks are dismissed, and white folks, especially white men, are not. This is why if you've got privilege, a platform, authority, it's so important that you take the risk and use your voice against injustice and harm.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When the oppressed are subject to not only metaphorical but literal silencing, the rest of us must speak up katemanne.substack.com/p/when-the-p...
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When the Privileged Speak
Macklemore’s stance on Palestine shows something crucial about white men’s speech
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A sneak peak at my next big fat ambitious feminist book project katemanne.substack.com/p/the-author...
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The Authority of the Body
A feminist moral philosopher’s manifesto—and a sneak peak at my next book project
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yesteryear is a story about horizontal violence katemanne.substack.com/p/the-women-...
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The Women of Yesteryear
The hit novel is a tale of horizontal violence and female misogyny
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I was the primary caregiver this summer because I had summer break and my wife works full time. I can report that summer childcare is (a) expensive as fuck and (b) often only covers an hour or two every day. I loved spending time with my kids, but this required basically giving up 80% of my summer.
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DC Cassandra @dccassandra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why telling us to “smile more” makes us want to cut you into little pieces and feed you to our cats
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Patriarchy loves to massively overwork women and then scratch its head about why we aren’t smiling. katemanne.substack.com/p/i-am-too-t...
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I Am Too Tired To Be Enraged
On the dearth of affordable summer childcare for school-age children in this country.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was good actually katemanne.substack.com/p/we-are-not...
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We Are Not Canceling Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem fought for a multi-racial, intersectional feminist movement and we must not forget it—or omit to actually read her.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am an incredibly sex+ person - both in my personal belief system and in my approach to violence prevention work. I've literally taught consent in kink spaces. But we really gotta address the mainstreaming of "choking" because it's really dangerous & more & more often seen as "normal" by youth.
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Police investigate death of teenage girl two days after alleged ‘sexual choking’ act in Sydney
Paramedics called to northern beaches home on Sunday evening before 16-year-old dies in hospital on Tuesday night after sexual strangulation act
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Why are we so worried—dare I say over-sensitive—as a society to the risk of one kind of error but not another? Why are we so up in arms about over-sensitivity but not under-sensitivity, despite the obvious statistical point that they both involve errors? katemanne.substack.com/p/what-sexua...
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Sensitivity is a Gift
My last word on the story I shared about my TV appearance in Switzerland
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've added a link to the English translation. How race-scientists weild systematic doubt and participatory scrutiny in order to recast themselves as arbiters of truth. The 3 year hunt for Jason Arday wasn't only about his destruction. The ultimate trophy is epistemic dominance.
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Comment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason Arday
Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …
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Nadia Brügger @ladysisyphos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ob srf wohl noch öffentlich dazu stellung nehmen wird, dass @katemanne.bsky.social vom in-ear-dolmetscher bei sternstunde philosophie sexuell belästigt wurde? Welche konsequenzen wird die tat für den täter haben?
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Surili @surili18.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Such a powerful, and again, all too recognizable, list of self-editing. Thank you for sharing.
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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A magnificent short piece from Kate Manne. “All of the Things I Didn’t Say” Love to see a thinker and author extend herself the charity that women thinkers and authors are always chided about giving to others, and what it means for writing about yourself katemanne.substack.com/p/all-of-the...
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All the Things I Didn’t Say
Telling my story of crossed lines involved editing out all the himpathy
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Feeling sympathy for a male offender over a female target is such a deep reflex under patriarchy. Even, or sometimes especially, when you are that target. katemanne.substack.com/p/all-of-the...
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All the Things I Didn’t Say
Telling my story of crossed lines involved editing out all the himpathy
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Axolotl Richie @quarzator.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026
Als Fettes Kind wurde ich früher sehr oft gehänselt. Vor 50 Jahren war es normal über Dicke herzuziehen. Was das mit der Psyche der betrofenen macht hat sich damals kaum jemand gedanken gemacht.
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Dicke Körper, dünne Moral: Kate Manne über Fettfeindlichkeit - Sternstunde Philosophie - Play SRF
Zwischen Body Positivity und Ozempic-Boom: Philosophin Kate Manne zeigt, warum Fettfeindlichkeit mehr ist als eine Gesundheitsdebatte, und stellt verbreitete Vorurteile über Körper infrage. Mehrgewich...
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My latest "why are men" moment katemanne.substack.com/p/men-pour-s...
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Men Pour Smut in My Ear
Telling my story about the impact of crossed lines in the workplace
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Matthias Meyer @mmyr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you saw this in your feed and kept scrolling, consider again; this piece by @katemanne.bsky.social is very much worth reading. For academia but also as general life-advice: do not participate in a pile-on.
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Gossipy Academics Helped Kill Jason Arday
Or, the anatomy of a pile-on
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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
an acquaintance of mine who was subject to this said this exact same thing to me once. he described the feeling of being talked through, like you’re already a ghost. then he deleted all those messages, I assume because it felt too dangerous to admit that kind of weakness anymore.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I will never write (because mixed audience) but the heartbreak so many Black people feel isn’t just about neoconfederates and Trump. It’s about how many of our whites friends and colleagues showed how they thought of their Black colleagues.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Academic gossip fed the media monster and killed Jason Arday in a terrible, preventable, forseeable tragedy katemanne.substack.com/p/gossipy-ac...
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Gossipy Academics Helped Kill Jason Arday
Or, the anatomy of a pile-on
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The Menopausal Marauder @menopausalmarauder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“The people who more reliably if inadvertently reap the rewards of the price women pay are the far greater percentage of men who do not have to pay it.”
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A little reflection on women having our precious time, bandwidth and money wasted by various men's unprofessional and gross behavior katemanne.substack.com/p/the-misogy...
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The Misogyny Tax
On the bullshit our male counterparts do not have to deal with.
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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Oh wow. This analysis makes SO much sense! What a great piece. @katemanne.bsky.social is brilliant. katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
How I’m discouraging generative AI usage among our incoming class of graduate students katemanne.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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What Happens When Graduate Students Use AI
And how to design graduate classes that are strongly AI-resistant
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"The watchword of patriarchy is women’s service with a smile. Every woman alive is hence in the service industry to some extent or other, in being subject to the constant expectation of our emotional and intellectual, as well as sexual and domestic, labor." Brilliant piece by @katemanne.bsky.social.
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
'I suspect that many people in our culture—particularly privileged men—are easily hooked on generative AI and taken in by its mindless syncophancy. In short, they miss female subordinates who seamlessly do their bidding.' (Kate Manne) katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
this is excellent--a must read on the relationship between gender and gAI.
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SMLN 🦋🍂 @somaybelikeno.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Beclowned" will be a part of my daily vocabulary from now on.
Richard Dawkins recently beclowned himself by opining in a right-wing outlet that Anthropic’s LLM chatbot Claude—who he renamed “Claudia”—is conscious after spending a mere three days enjoying its flattery.
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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
AI can’t fix a shitty partner www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post... @lyz.bsky.social links back to the Silicon Valley "an Uber for [Everything I Would Otherwise Expect a Woman to Do for Me] and put this with @katemanne.bsky.social 's on sycophant culture yesterday and I am tired
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AI can’t fix a shitty partner | Men Yell at Me
Every year, before the school year starts, I take a full day to make sure all the sports, music, and academic calendars are properly put int
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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
there is a reason the chatbots are mostly gendered female! it is the same reason that the word "robot" comes to us from the Czech word for "serf!" our society genders these things as tools and utilities, which makes them: female
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LiLuMiLi @lilumili.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Certain men are pining for the service that women’s increasing and invaluable intellectual freedom has make them feel deprived of. Generative AI spills slop into a void of needy men’s dashed expectations. No wonder incels love their AI girlfriends."
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“In other words: generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants.” @katemanne.bsky.social is provocative and insightful, as ever, with this feminist approach to AI.
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is incisive and wise.
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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is a smart essay. It helps me understand why the suckup-ery of AI chatbots feels so icky.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As @katemanne.bsky.social notes, it's reinforcing male entitlement to female deference. If men wallow in AI porn and bots saying "yes, sir," all day, they may react poorly when real women say no. It could lead to violence. katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Eveline Groot @evelineg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So so insightful, thank you @katemanne.bsky.social (as per usual). ‘ChatGPT fills and fuels a felt need for the female syncophancy that no human being should want, and that privileged men should be weaned off their historical reliance on.’
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Varyl Thorndycraft @varylt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today's essential AI read... ... and I've never downloaded ChatGPT either. Kate beautifully articulates how I feel about it.
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every day is Halloween! @jennatar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"As the brilliant Tressie McMillan Cottom has written, there’s a deliberate ploy to use generative AI to disproportionately displace women from feminine-coded jobs in administration and customer service. (And it is doing them very poorly in comparison with actual human beings [...].)"
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