Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Down Girl, Chapter 3

Debate structure

  • Readings for next time: critics of Manne who will give us more ideas for the negative side
  • Rebuttal--need to make targeted objections
  • Re naive definition: it wouldn't be so difficult to recognize instances of misogyny if we saw it as something in a person's "heart"
  • Re disappointed diner: is that really misogyny? What about other cases of reacting to bad service (where server is a man, or person reacting is a woman)?
Misogyny vs. sexism
  • Sexism--definition that Cudd and Jones reject (Cudd and Jones, p. 157)
  • Sexism--definition that Cudd and Jones accept (Cudd and Jones, p. 158)
  • Sexism vs. misogyny--definitions Manne proposes
p. 79
p. 80
  • Example of sexism in the news--Ernst and Young training 
  • Misogyny--harassing or firing someone who doesn't comply with that ideology (e.g. Ann Hopkins, Price Waterhouse 1989)
  • But Manne doesn't discuss discrimination much in this book

CBS news




Trump, Clinton, reproductive rights
  • Donald Trump: misogyny, but possibly no sexism
  • Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard: treated as witches and bitches
  • denial of reproductive rights as a form of misogyny
p. 99

p. 100

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