> On Feb 2, 2018, at 6:05 PM, Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks to the recent writings of Kate Manne (Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny) I have discovered I am a misogynist.
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> as I face more and more meetings with deans where I am the target of accusations of my monstrosity which in the end amounts to my holding on to ancient academic standards.
Keith,
I am not clear on the nature of your post. Are you saying that you are under attack for what "amounts to [your] holding on to ancient academic standards," that you are under attack for the specific charge of misogyny, or that you infer from reading Kate Manne's *Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny* that you will inevitably come under such an attack?
I have not read Manne’s book. My impression from reading about it is that she redefines misogyny away from a hatred of, contempt for, or bigotry against women, and instead uses the word to describe actions that tend to enforce gender roles and punish those who step out of "their place."
As to your discovery of your misogynist status: If I am correct about Manne’s redefinition of misogyny, I still don’t know how she deals with the question of whether misogyny is basic to some people--thus making them misogynists--or if it is an action taken by people more broadly and not limited to specific sorts of individuals--thus setting up some sort of parallel to talk of "racism without racists." (Would "misogyner" capture the protagonist in a situation where we consider misogyny to be an action rather than a belief as such?)
Does Manne’s book deal with the question of the differences between punishing women who step out of subservient roles and punishing men who step out of subservient roles? How do you deal with those differences?
Do you believe that the distribution of women vs. men in subservient roles is random or is something else going on? What is your role (and mine) in dealing with the answer to that question?
Gunnar
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