What do Ezra Klein and Dr. Becky and for that matter Brené Brown have in common? A knee-jerk rejection of all shame that is as disastrous in parenting as in politics katemanne.substack.com/p/dr-beckys-...

The cruelty is the point katemanne.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Could Karen Attiah please be reinstated now? Himpathy—the endless prioritization of white men and their feelings over everyone and everything else—distorts who we rally around as well as who we memorialize katemanne.substack.com/p/what-we-do...

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of all the damning things in this dispassionate, devastating piece, this fills me most w/a righteous thirst for real justice: ‘here is part of the transcript I did … no journalist has … ever bothered to write down her words’ “Katie Johnson’s Full Testimony of 2/11/16” youtu.be/gnib-OORRRo?...

Today is a good day to read & share this piece from @katemanne.bsky.social "The real conspiracy theory around Trump & Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, & continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, & much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds"

"Katie Johnson's story is all too believable. And we have buried and ignored it to our national peril." Very compelling argument from @katemanne.bsky.social

Yes, you really should.

this is so, so good

"The real conspiracy theory around Trump and Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, and continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, and much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds."

This is by far my most popular piece on substack, with close to half a million views. You should read it katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

This image is nauseating and shocking and entirely unsurprising to anyone who's been paying attention

@katemanne.bsky.social: "Riveting, harrowing, and brilliant, Manon Garcia's Living with Men is indispensable reading for our times. A work of journalism, philosophy, and cultural criticism, it will help you to grapple not only with the mass rape case that gripped the world, but also the ordinariness

Maybe instead of "Release the Epstein files," we should say "Justice for Epstein survivors." Reflections after reading this post by the brilliant @katemanne.bsky.social... open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

“Women’s time spent on housework goes up upon marriage, and men’s goes down. This pattern reverses upon divorce.” Will never forget the time a straight friend told me that men “just think differently”, which is why she carried the entire load of the household & he sat playing hours of PlayStation.

It's literally based on a National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Princeton, Wharton, and PCU economists 🙃

"Men’s lack of domestic work is due not to a lack of skill, time, or even interest in the fruits of that labor, but a simple, determined insistence on having their wives do the bulk of it."

It's men's exploitation, not women's superior talents, time, or interest driving intractable, appalling domestic inequality katemanne.substack.com/p/why-marria...

"Effectively turning a blind eye to students’ use of generative AI to write their essays is a serious abdication of professional responsibility."

“Within a learning community, we help each other, listen to each other, and disagree with each other in ways which no machine can do more than mimic emptily.” — @katemanne.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

“I never asked my undergraduate students to write essays for me because the product inherently mattered. It was always the process: lose that, and the exercise loses its point.” #HigherEducation #writing #philosophy

Our jobs just got a lot harder. It's still our job to get students writing katemanne.substack.com/p/yes-it-is-...

I lost so much in the process of treating The Biggest Loser like a how-to guide katemanne.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

I believe morality has its ultimate source in the vulnerable bodies of people and creatures, which cry out for food, water, safety, security, help. I cannot think of a more obvious example of this than what is happening in Gaza

i’ve felt vaguely queasy about the “mankeeping” discourse but couldn’t articulate why until i read this great piece from @katemanne.bsky.social, which perfectly crystallizes the problem: “…we need moral ideas that get to the root cause: men are not entitled to a wife who is and does everything.”

It's obviously not the singular solution, but it seems to me that delayed marriage and dating around when you're young is a foundation that could help. If men can learn to be self-sufficient when young adults, they don't need wife-mommies as much. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-entitl...

@katemanne.bsky.social puts all the pieces together. Brutal reading. open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

Maternal mortality rates are twice as high in red states compared to blue states. This is a human rights crisis. Philosopher Kate Manne joins Gaslit Nation: https://loom.ly/5ybyzmw #oligarchy #dictatorship #dictatortrump

We owe it to the women who came before us, who risked all for the rights under threat today. Philosopher @katemanne.bsky.social , author of Down Girl and Entitled, joins Gaslit Nation: https://loom.ly/5ybyzmw #oligarchy #dictatorship #dictatortrump

Been wondering when/if the 2016 lawsuit, later withdrawn, accusing Trump of raping a 13 year-old would resurface. In 2016 I wrote to the NYT Public Editor to ask why NYT was ignoring the case. I got an answer that was basically: b/c she filed anonymously. h/t @katemanne.bsky.social for post below

. @katemanne.bsky.social, by my lights the most important feminist philosopher in the world, makes a VERY compelling case that Donald Trump raped a 13-year-old girl. This includes terrifying details, but it must be read. open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

"I am someone who does what I do pretty well, and does very little else willingly." = My Whole Vibe Also @katemanne.bsky.social admitting she'd "rather experience growth as a beginner than regression as a more expert practitioner": SAME.

Instead of waiting for (redacted or doctored) Epstein files, media should publish court docs alleging that Trump raped Katie Johnson at Epstein's home when she was 13. Why ignore what alleged victims have to say while giving adjudicated or alleged perps unlimited air time? @katemanne.bsky.social

If you want to hear the story of the 13 year old girl that Donald Trump raped with the help of Jeffrey Epstein you should read below - I pulled this from an article by @katemanne.bsky.social that left me so blindingly full of rage that I can't stop obsessing over it. Read and weep for Katie Johnson.

#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp A very important piece, reporting @katemanne.bsky.social analysis on Substack www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I think an unintended consequence of touting the birthday card and pervy quotes is it gives the impression that indirect innuendo is the best we've got, maybe because it's in the public record, whereas the accusers' accounts have fewer witnesses, but those accounts are explicit and far more damning

It seems incomprehensible that Trump would pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, which is hanging a neon sign up that says "Covering Up Pedophile Ring." But this essay helps explain one strong possibility why: What Katie Johnson accused him of doing is just that terrible.

Powerful work assembling the facts and voices and making the case--that Trump indeed has a great deal to hide.

At minimum, everyone should read the transcripts. This is also a great breakdown of the evidence.

This post sums up what I've been yelling at TV screens (much to my family's delight) for weeks. We have credible first-person testimony, from the victim herself & Epstein's "handler", that Trump raped a 13-year-old in Epstein's NYC apartment in 1994. But it's just two women talking, so why listen?

Where are the voices of the girls Epstein and Trump abused? Kate Manne transcribed Katie Johnson’s (a pseudonym) account of how Trump allegedly raped her at Epstein’s home in 1994. She was 13 and wore a blonde wig that Trump allegedly said made her look like Ivana, who was 13yo at the time.

Absolutely spot on from @katemanne.bsky.social in 2016. If only we would listen...

Kate Manne has the receipts. Please read and share this incredible piece of work.

This is a hard read, but it's one that EVERYONE should be reading. The mountain of evidence against Trump has been around for a long time at this point. Yes, MAGA, YOU put a real, actual pedophile in the Whitehouse, twice.

open.substack.com/pub/katemann... An extremely difficult read but thank you @katemanne.bsky.social for putting it out there.

This is a really hard read (tw: sexual violence against minors) but I'm posting it because it needs to be part of the discourse re the Epstein case and Trump's involvement. Grateful to Kate Manne for showcasing it. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

The actual conspiracy theory is that multiple women independently lied, with apparently nothing to gain, and much to lose, about Trump’s entanglement with Epstein. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...