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So my favorite, one of my favorite publications is called The Cut.

It's a magazine based in New York, edited by Lindsay Peoples.

I mean, it's just like so good.

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After you got canceled on the cuts comment sections, let's move on to what the second story is.

Okay, Jen, my second story for you has also got to do with Donald Trump in the press.

Yes.

There was an article in The Cut that I saw with the title, The Case for the Entry-Level Boyfriend.

And it kind of spoke about justice for the first partner whilst they didn't make the cut.

No pun intended.

No pun intended.

Whilst they didn't make the cut, they did teach us a lot of things.

And also this author's sort of thesis was Gen Zs need to be partaking in relationships, proper relationships instead of these situationship-y type things.

We need to be learning from proper partners.

Indeed, brothers are often encouraged toward antisocial behavior that harms their campus and town.

In a recent interview with The Cut about the Cornell Seven case, three fraternity members shared about how fraternity culture contributes to a threefold increase in sexual assault among fraternity members.

One brother, Brandon F, talked about how the hazing process ate away at his integrity.

Quote, "After I completed the initiation, I was just happy.

It's definitely come up in my community a lot, and it was a community member who turned me on to your Substack where you've been writing about this.

And then recently you had a really well-reported, well-written piece come out in New York Magazine's The Cut, and we'll have a link to that in the show notes page, which was such a compelling thing to read and such a generous gift, I think, to share your experience so vulnerably.

And I know the reception has probably been pretty intense or maybe bigger than you imagined it would be.

Can we talk about the lens through which we're coming to this conversation? Like, what has happened in the past year of your life in terms of, like, setting this up?

So joining us now is Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell and author of the books Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny and Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women.

She also writes the Substack More To Hate, and maybe you saw her recent pe-- uh, piece in The Cut from New York Magazine a few weeks ago titled "What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now." Kate, Professor Manne, welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you for joining us today.

Thanks for having me, Brian.

... that, um, proliferates in fraternities.

Listeners, who has a question or a comment for Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, author of the books Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny and Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women.

She also writes the Substack "More To Hate," and her recent piece in The Cut from New York Magazine a few weeks ago is titled "What It Feels Like At Cornell Right Now." Listeners, do you think they should ban fraternities on college campuses, maybe even sororities, or anything else you wanna say or ask or report as one of your own experiences maybe? Two one two four three three WNYC, and we're gonna get into the even larger pictures, um, from Kate's writings like the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.

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