Potpourri
The country where Kate Manne grew up
Australia
What does the title 'Down Girl' make reference to?
Keeping women inferior / treating women like dogs / the command that is misogyny
The commonsense explanation of the word entitlement
Expectation, being owed something, etc
True or false: Manne believes explaining misogyny must take into account intersectionality
True
Kate Manne uses this unusual word to describe the goals of her project, which are improving our concepts
Ameliorative
Who are the main targets of misogyny?
Girls and women, or people perceived as girls and women, who are perceived as threatening patriarchal norms
The headline "Stanford Swimmer Who Raped Unconscious Woman Gets Short Sentence Because Jail Would Have a 'Severe Impact on Him'" displays this attitude
Himpathy
Moya Bailey says this genre of TV/movies often displays misogynoir through the use of drag
Comedy
Name at least one of the real-life examples that Manne uses to illustrate himpathy (powerful and privileged men)
Brock Turner (swimmer), Brett Kavanaugh, Jian Ghomeshi
Manne's explains misogyny's function through analogy with this uniformed, publicly funded population of our society
Police
What epistemic entitlement means
To expect that you are the expert in the room, the most knowledgable one, "the knower"
Describe one of the tropes of representation that Moya Bailey says demonstrate misogynoir
Sara Baartman / the Jezebel
The Mammy
Emasculating Sapphire
True or false: to count as doing an act of misogyny, that person must hate all women
False
May not hate their mother/sister/women who are not threatening patriarchal ideology
How Manne defines a misogynist
An overachiever at misogyny; but plenty of misogyny is performed by non-misogynists
Name the paradigmatic features of mansplaining
- A man explaining something to a woman/women
- explaining that thing incorrectly
- with an overly confident/arrogant/condescending attitude
Explain the difference between transphobia and transmisogyny
Transphobia - affects all trans people and some gender-non-conforming cis people
Transmisogyny - names how transitioning towards femininity is more suspect/demonized that towards masculinity
Manne uses this phrase to describe the asymmetries of entitlement between men and women in patriarchal ideology
"women give and men take"
Kate Manne says these are two giveaways we can use for identifying misogyny
Disproportionate impact on women/girls
Distinctively gendered words/violent acts
Name the two harms of gaslighting
Epistemic harm- victim is no longer sure of their reality
Moral harm - victim feels guilty/morally defective for having questioned the abuser
To describe the misogynistic violence and hostility faced by a Black trans woman, we could use this double portmanteau
Transmisogynoir