larkandkatydid:

“Misogyny frequently involves morality take-downs or the unforgiving shaming of women for their (real or supposed) moral errors. Misogyny also subjects women to what I have come to think of as a kind of tyranny of vulnerability- by pointing to any and every (supposedly) more vulnerable (supposed) person or creature in her vicinity to whom she might (again, supposedly) do better, and require her to care for them, or else risk being judge callous, even monstrous.”

—

Kate Manne, Down Girl

This, to me, sums up both the specific insight of Down Girl and also the relevance of its arguments to about 12 different current events

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