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Book Review: Down Girl
Manne, Kate. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Oxford University Press: 2017.
Be careful what you choose for bedtime reading. I had a disturbing dream from the perspective of a man who’s about to drill a hole through his girlfriend’s jaw and attach her to a chain. And I was only reading chapter one.
Page 100: Let’s just call Douche Projecting-his-Nazism-onto-his-Scapegoats Excrement Limbaugh “Excrement” for short.
This book is fortunate I haven’t had a pen within reach for the past 20 pages. So much I could write in the margins.
Page 198: Are victim-blaming misogynists who throw women under the bus for rapists really THAT fucking moronic? Moronic enough to seriously think that you can tell someone is a rapist the moment you lay eyes on them because they look like monsters?
Yup. They are. They’d be outwitted by a dodo bird on meth.
A dodo bird with half a brain on meth and heroin.
A dodo bird with no more than five brain cells and on meth and heroin.
They’d be outwitted by a pile of dirt.
Basically, to paraphrase this book, the empathy-challenged assholes who are claiming there’s a “victimhood culture” are cishet white males gaslighting people who have far fewer privileges than they. These gaslighters…