Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Quote of the Day

I think most misogynistic behavior is about hostility toward women who violate patriarchal norms and expectations, who aren't serving male interests in the ways they're expected to.  So there's this sense that women are doing something wrong: that they're morally objectionable or have a bad attitude or they're abrasive or shrill or too pushy.  But women only appear that way because we expect them to be otherwise, to be passive.

-- Kate Manne, "What we get wrong about misogyny"

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