The line between pedophilic and ordinary sexuality in straight men is razor-thin

From @katemanne.bsky.social: "Not trying to look small, smooth-skinned, hairless, and above all young, suddenly got a whole lot easier. Because the thought of even vaguely satisfying the men who would be gratified by such appearances now turns my stomach." katemanne.substack.com/p/the-male-g...

@katemanne.bsky.social Please take time to read this and share widely katemanne.substack.com/p/the-story-...

Circulate widely via whatever media you have access to.

I recast Trump's next alleged girl victim's testimony first-personally based on four formal FBI interviews that were just released in the Epstein files (having been previously mysteriously missing). It's time for anyone who can afford to do so to listen katemanne.substack.com/p/the-story-...

Please read. I was crying by the end. @katemanne.bsky.social is reclaiming philosophy as something that matters—not a mere intellectual exercise.

A searing start to @katemanne.bsky.social’s righteous denunciation of former MIT and current Chiba Tech president Joi Ito for his longstanding support of, and masturbatory connivance with, Jeffrey Epstein.

Joi Ito, former director of MIT's media lab and now president of CIT, had numerous email exchanges with Epstein about "girls." They have never been published. It's high time they were katemanne.substack.com/p/theres-ano...

Is everyone aware John Brockman tried to get Epstein to acquire Brockman, the famous literary agency that somehow still persists? jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

Being a woman in this world is hard. From the Pélicot case to the Epstein files, we are forced to witness the widespread abuse of other women, often without consequences. Doing something about this starts with how we treat girls. Please read & share @katemanne.bsky.social's plea tinyurl.com/y4fytzkc

Combatir la gordofobia, según la filósofa Kate Manne: "Para una mujer o una niña, 'gorda' es uno de los peores insultos posibles" dozz.es/h85zc5

It's not just or even mostly that we don't believe girls. It's that we don't care what they tell us

Co-sign @katemanne.bsky.social. katemanne.substack.com/p/if-we-care...

I appeared on ttt in Germany to discuss the Epstein files

We need to join the dots and loudly demand better katemanne.substack.com/p/if-we-care...

Superbly clear case for why Bard should demand Botstein’s resignation by the indispensable @katemanne.bsky.social

Die großartige Philosophin Kate Manne über die Epstein-Files und die Logik des Misogynie in ttt! www.ardmediathek.de/video/ttt-ti...

775 signatures over the past day. Let's make it at least 1000. It's a small thing but it matters. We have to keep pushing for some semblance of accountability. Thanks for the support to those who’ve circulated and signed already

Signed as an MBA alum and current teaching assistant. Botstein must resign.

A girls' elementary school. Dozens dead. Perhaps hundreds. Sitting with the profound evil and the mindfck and the knowledge that this war may well have been declared to distract us from the Epstein files and the conspicuously missing evidence that the president of this nation raped 13 year-old girls

Nearly 400 signatures and counting in just a few hours. Let's keep up the momentum and the pressure.

As a former professor at Bard - this is so important. Haven't taught there in a decade but Botstein has been problematic for a long time. How can he still be employed?

Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

Simon’s Rock and Bard community - if you agree that it is past time for Botstein to go please sign and share our alum penned open letter to the Bard Board forms.gle/hncrVWdNbpEz...

We all know what's in the "missing files": @katemanne.bsky.social reported on Trump child rape allegations in 2025 & the 2016 testimony of the alleged victim is on YouTube. Watch the #SundayShot's interview with Kate M below and then view Katie Johnson's testimony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naus...

Look back at the Epstein files and you can see the future of patriarchy--girls and women exploited as shared resources for male enjoyment and bonding rather than jealously hoarded and safeguarded as property to compete over katemanne.substack.com/p/the-presci...

The original essay from 2016 by @katemanne.bsky.social here: www.huffpost.com/entry/sympat...

And this is due to ‘Himpathy’ as described by the legendary @katemanne.bsky.social

Right now, I do not think normal American realize how misogyny (in the Kate Manne sense) is driving the Republican Party. A through line exists between the Epstein Files, the refusal to investigate Renee Good’s death, the attempt to “curb” colleges, and finally, the Save Act.

The NYT’s framing of Leon Botstein’s frankly unbelieveable justifications and excuses is “tailor-made to stop us seeing the clear moral and institutional truth: palling around with Jeffrey Epstein for years is automatically disqualifying for a university president,” says @katemanne.bsky.social.

“Why is a man who showed such complicity and cravenness still presiding over young and vulnerable college students, in a position that requires not only trust but an impeccable moral character? One word: himpathy.”

Botstein palled around with Epstein for years and helped launder his reputation. The Epsteins cannot exist without the Botsteins. It's time for accountability katemanne.substack.com/p/bards-pres...

Kate Manne coined the term "himpathy" to describe this precise phenomenon.

Do meet your [email protected] is so damn brilliant ✨️

Looking forward to attending this Stafford Little Lecture with @katemanne.bsky.social and @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @princeton.edu, later today. There will be a livestream starting at 5 pm, available here: mediacentrallive.princeton.edu lectures.princeton.edu/lectures/202...

🔴 NOVEDAD 🔴 Una obra que no concibe la gordura como un insulto ni un problema, sino como la forma natural que tienen algunos cuerpos, y que propone que la respuesta social a la gordofobia ha de ser política Irreductibles. Cómo hacer frente a la gordofobia, de @katemanne.bsky.social #YaEnLibrerías

Deep down they are terrified of women seeing how small they are katemanne.substack.com/p/the-id-of-...

"You do not owe anyone your reproductive labor. You do not owe anyone children. You do not owe them to your husband, or your parents, or your other children, or your community, or even yourself. It is entirely up to you..."

“when the confidence about the likelihood and magnitude of a problem outstrips the confidence warranted by the academic debate about it, it can mean that ideology is at work, playing a role in animating and sustaining…the pearl-clutching…The dread is really about women being free and unencumbered.”

There's more controversy about an impending population crisis due to lower birth rates than Ross Douthat would have you believe katemanne.substack.com/p/dear-mr-do...

@katemanne.bsky.social är fantastisk och alla som är intresserade av feminism och patriarkat bör läsa! Om man vill läsa mina översättningar heter de svenska böckerna "Duktig flicka" och "Allt män har rätt till".

The post from @katemanne.bsky.social

I missed this: Gallup: "40% of [US] women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity." (Was 10% in 2014.) The pronatalism will continue until moral improves. ht @katemanne.bsky.social

The interview with Kate Manne is a must watch... (along with the rest of the quality show as usual)

A reminder that Kate Manne and I have a lecture coming up at Princeton…

This week's #SundayShot is up, people! @rachelwithers.bsky.social & @mrdtjames.bsky.social trawl over the week that was with @davemilbo.bsky.social & me, plus Prof @katemanne.bsky.social on the #EpsteinFiles & credible allegations of child rape against Donald Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYkZ...

As obvious as the misogyny is, the mechanism here is interesting: being unsmiling isn't just a facet of who she is, it robs of her of the moral standing to criticize katemanne.substack.com/p/smile-pigg...

Cannot. Wait. Don't miss this if you're in the area!

The real mystery is why more of us aren't fleeing katemanne.substack.com/p/women-want...

Una exploración de cómo opera la gordofobia, cómo alimenta suposiciones devastadoras sobre el atractivo, la fortaleza y la inteligencia de las personas, y cómo se entrecruza con otros sistemas de opresión, especialmente con los cuerpos femeninos. Irreductibles, de @katemanne.bsky.social 16 febrero