Kate Manne

Making psychopathy strange again is a worthwhile exercise, and it's enabled only by the misogyny that the film manages not to reveal or even notice katemanne.substack.com/p/what-we-we...

I interviewed my former student Diego, who was president of one fraternity here at Cornell and spent two years as a live-in advisor at another. What he told me shocked even me. You can find the full interview here and via my link in bio: katemanne.substack.com/p/an-intervi...

“The men cheered: “I fucking love chi phi”; “CHI PHIII.” Masculinity is performed, proved and reveled in: You show yourself to be big men on campus by collectively preying on a vulnerable woman.“- Kate Manne www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

Kate Manne asks, “Why do men in groups behave this way? What makes a man in front of an audience of other men offer up a woman like a piece of meat for consumption?”

>> He told me that his girlfriend asked him recently what he would have done if he’d been part of the Chi Phi group chat... >> He was ... honest and insightful in his reply. “I was thrown off by my internal response because immediately what I thought of was, well, am I still fraternity president?”

bsky.app/profile/kate... As always, @katemanne.bsky.social explains things perfectly. Please read, share with your sons, and talk to them.

Another brilliant essay by Kate Manne. A lot of people want some shocking explanation for why fraternities perpetrate gang rapes. But we already know the answer because patriarchy (and its associated norms like "bro code") are everywhere. The familiarity is why it's so unsettling.

This was a great read. I went to undergrad just before smartphones so the dynamics were slightly different but the one thing that has remained the same is that male predators always seek each other out in the worst form of solidarity possible. How we handle that problem can and must change, now.

I wrote about men in groups in connection with Jane Doe and the Cornell case. Some of what I discovered in my research shocked even me (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

“Frats appear to have the power to take men and turn them into rapists.” @katemanne.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

My faculty colleague at Cornell (Prof. Kate Manne) concludes we should "ban the frats." I agree. @katemanne.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

i agree with @katemanne.bsky.social

I'm so pleased and proud to share this interview on CALL HER DADDY, the most listened to podcast among women in America, on the Cornell case and rape culture. These are grim times but old problems and necessary conversations. We got into it #IamJaneDoe #MeToo podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

I was proud and privileged to interview Sophia Dasser, the editor-in-chief of the Cornell Sun and now a leader in the #IamJaneDoe movement. We talked about why safety on campus is not an optional extra—it’s an essential precondition of learning katemanne.substack.com/p/telling-th...

A must read, interview by @katemanne.bsky.social of Sophia Dasser, Cornell's incredible student newspaper editor-in-chief katemanne.substack.com/p/telling-th...

The “literacies“ framework is as intellectually bankrupt as polarization right now. We will keep using it because when you’ve got one hammer and the NSF social science funding has dried up everything looks like a nostalgic managerial class nail.

Yet another brilliant piece by @katemanne.bsky.social. "Education is, in the end, an individualistic and shallow response to a deep and structural problem. And it mistakenly identifies false beliefs rather than bad desires as the problem."

You can educate a man about consent all you want; you can't force him to care about it katemanne.substack.com/p/they-didnt...

Kate Manne wrote another brilliant essay about the Cornell case. This time, it's about her own experiences interacting with Cornell's police department.

“… members of a fraternity posted vile things about her on social media… taking photos of her at her workplace on campus… She went to report it to CUPD at the encouragement of her boss... ‘They sent a male officer to take my statement. He informed me that I should be “flattered” by the posts’…”

Abolish the CUPD katemanne.substack.com/p/that-time-...

In my considered opinion, CUPD is on the side of the frats katemanne.substack.com/p/whose-side...

Well, look at this: in 2025 a couple Cornell University police officers were disciplined for “sexual harassment in the workplace,” according to this report shared by @katemanne.bsky.social in her latest newsletter cupolice.cornell.edu/wp-content/u...

This is a tough read. Having taught at various U.S. universities, I have been amazed by the fact that sexual assault is endemic and most of the little debate has been focused on protecting men from false accusations (which rarely happens) — himpathy, as @katemanne.bsky.social coined.

Frats are virtually uninsurable. That's how dangerous they are—right up there with hazardous waste collection and asbestos removal. Let that sink in katemanne.substack.com/p/ban-the-fu...

In light of all the horrible sexual assault in the news, this from my conversation with Kate Manne in February at Princeton still sums up my thoughts. Power =\= Good Men(tm). Power = Power.

"The dangers of fraternities were so widespread [...] they had been ranked as the “sixth worst risk for insurance companies—just behind hazardous waste disposal companies and asbestos contractors.” So dangerous were their activities that their commercial insurance carriers declined insuring [...]."

Ban the fucking frats and, if you care about self-protection in the way many of us do, please avoid them katemanne.substack.com/p/ban-the-fu...

I'm a Cornell Alum who was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity during the 80s. I'm taking a side. These crimes committed at #Cornell are horrific. I agree with @katemanne.bsky.social: "I want to add here in the clearest terms possible: ban the fucking frats." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Cornell police edited Jane Doe's statement. Are we in pitchforks and torches territory yet? I think we are close. "As we now know, Cornell police also condensed down Doe's statement, omitting crucial details including the fact that she said she was 100 percent confident she’d been raped."

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

Just read @katemanne.bsky.social ‘s fantastic piece in The Cut about the Cornell rape and she points out that students protesting conditions in Gaza were treated more harshly than the rapists and holy shit, this detail

“…what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. Cease to be a place where the consequences for sexual-assault victims are often greater than for the perpetrators.”

Grinnell has a required writing class for first-year students. As part of the class, we have to teach about academic honesty and avoiding plagiarism. Easy enough, I thought, until I got the first student question: "Why does Grinnell seem to take this so much more seriously than it does Title IX?"

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

"what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." Cornell philosophy prof @katemanne.bsky.social in The Cut:

For all we wring our hands about social media use and its ill effects on mental health and use in cyberbullying, the greater crisis is that it sets young boys up for violence. But the Misogynistic Generation is unfortunately never going to be a bestseller katemanne.substack.com/p/your-adole...

All the talk of women's overfunctioning papers over the real issue: straight men are underfunctioning on a grand scale and their wives pay the price katemanne.substack.com/p/when-husba...

Apropos of Macklemore: a succinct description of how many women and non-white folks are dismissed, and white folks, especially white men, are not. This is why if you've got privilege, a platform, authority, it's so important that you take the risk and use your voice against injustice and harm.

When the oppressed are subject to not only metaphorical but literal silencing, the rest of us must speak up katemanne.substack.com/p/when-the-p...