Kate Manne
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Sep 26, 2026
Adrian DaubGUEST
And it's also, of course, a world in which they think that technology can sort of right that wrong, that the fact that they are not g- being paid attention to in quite the same way.
Adrian DaubGUEST
I wanna point your listeners to this wonderful piece that Kate Manne wrote back in August, where she sort of w- said something very, very interesting and I thought, I think very right.
Adrian DaubGUEST
She's like, "Why is it that, like, we get all these articles about how, like, 'I used AI and it was so amazing' from, like, dudes in their 60s and 70s?" And she says, "In short, they miss female subordinates who seamlessly do their bidding.
Adrian DaubGUEST
It's the reason many have missed as to why generative AI is a pressing feminist issue, and why we must resist its temptation to indulge in servility," right? These are privileged men sort of hooked by general AI or by the promise of general AI because it pays attention to them the way they think, uh, either in a historic space or in an imaginative space of what it used to look like, they ought to be paid attention to.
Adrian DaubGUEST
And I do think that's the other part, that we're, uh, in a, in a particular moment in the history of gender, which sort of makes their sense of entitlement, but also their sense of their own failings, politically quite potent for a particular group of very wealthy, very privileged men.
Abby KluchinHOST
Yeah.
Abby KluchinHOST
No, I mean, I, I think Kate Manne's idea of himpathy is as, and, and you cite it in, in the book, is, is very useful in giving us, like, a theoretical handhold for, for why the pathos of the billionaire actually has some, some sort of resonance for-
Adrian DaubGUEST
Yeah
Leah LitmanHOST
S- I mean, really, as we are leading into the midterms, then the 2028 election, just getting more people to be educated about the right-wing takeover and plan and capture of the courts I just think is essential to building the momentum for pro-democracy changes ideally after 2026 and 2028.
Leah LitmanHOST
Um, Kate Manne had a post on the Yesteryear book on her Substack, and it was everything that I didn't know I needed, but absolutely loved it.
Leah LitmanHOST
Um, I just finished watching Ponies, um, unfortunately a show that got canceled after one season.
Leah LitmanHOST
Extremely sad.
Brittany PageHOST
Yeah.
Brittany PageHOST
And if you don't know anything about that, I would recommend the Kate Manne Substack on it, and, uh, I will link to that in the description, which I will definitely remember to do 'cause I'm telling myself that right now.
Jesse DollimoreHOST
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Brittany PageHOST
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Lucy McAfeeHOST
Jamie's story is fictional, but there are real cases that follow an unsettlingly similar path.
Lucy McAfeeHOST
Kate Manne writes about one of them in her book Entitled.
Lucy McAfeeHOST
In twenty fourteen, a twenty-two-year-old man named Elliot Rodger planned an attack on a sorority house near the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lucy McAfeeHOST
He couldn't get through the sorority's locked door, but he continued his attack elsewhere, killing six people and injuring fourteen before dying by suicide.
David RutledgeHOST
'Cause today we're gonna be talking about the way that people in positions of power can use their position to generate sympathy for the powerful at the expense of the oppressed, how people at the lower end of the social hierarchy can be manipulated into accepting that their sympathies should lie with the people at the top.
David RutledgeHOST
We're also talking about feminism and the disproportionate sympathy that men can attract in cases of sexual assault and intimate partner violence and other misogynistic crimes, the kind of inappropriate sympathy that the Australian philosopher Kate Manne has memorably christened himpathy.
David RutledgeHOST
So all very 21st century issues, but we're gonna be examining them through the work of the late 18th century English philosopher Catherine Macaulay.
David RutledgeHOST
My guest this week is Elena Gordon.
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David RutledgeHOST
We're talking about sympathy and himpathy and the work of the wonderful late 18th century English philosopher Catherine Macaulay.
David RutledgeHOST
More information on The Philosopher's Zone website.
David RutledgeHOST
Your argument is that all of this anticipates a very modern feminist concern, which is the concept of himpathy, um, and this is where we turn to Kate Manne, the wonderful Australian feminist philosopher, uh, currently at Cornell University, I think.
David RutledgeHOST
She introduced this term himpathy in her 2017 book, uh, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.
Christine CocchiolaGUEST
Ramani quoted me at one of her major functions where she says, you know, "I no longer use high conflict because Dr. Cocchiola said that virt- every case of high conflict we have to ask the question, is there one person with more power? One person who is exerting power and control over the other person? That's abuse." And so, you know, um, so the system unfortunately has been created by men for men overall.
Christine CocchiolaGUEST
And as you know, you show up in a suit and tie, you act like you really wanna see your children now, and when really all you care about is not paying child support and/or weaponizing the children, and you're now the hero dad as, as Kate Manne talks about in her book, uh, "Down Girl." And she calls it himpathy.
Bridget BennettHOST
Himpathy.
Christine CocchiolaGUEST
Yes.