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Kate Manne

@katemanne.bsky.social

Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her

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ttt – titel thesen temperamente: ttt vom 01. März 2026 - hier anschauen Das 'System Epstein' – Sexismus, Misogynie und patriarchale Gewalt | Der Eklat um die Berlinale | 'Splittelse' – neuer Krimi über amerikanische Mission zur Übernahme Grönlands | 'Fröhlich sein' – Thom...

English subtitles via Google translate available here www.ardmediathek.de/video/ttt-ti...

03.03.2026 15:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I appeared on ttt in Germany to discuss the Epstein files

03.03.2026 15:42 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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If We Cared About Girls The world would be unimaginably different

We need to join the dots and loudly demand better katemanne.substack.com/p/if-we-care...

03.03.2026 14:54 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Superbly clear case for why Bard should demand Botstein’s resignation by the indispensable @katemanne.bsky.social

02.03.2026 10:25 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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ttt – titel thesen temperamente: ttt vom 01. März 2026 - hier anschauen Das 'System Epstein' – Sexismus, Misogynie und patriarchale Gewalt | Der Eklat um die Berlinale | 'Splittelse' – neuer Krimi über amerikanische Mission zur Übernahme Grönlands | 'Fröhlich sein' – Thom...

Die großartige Philosophin Kate Manne über die Epstein-Files und die Logik des Misogynie in ttt!
www.ardmediathek.de/video/ttt-ti...

01.03.2026 19:27 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

And I'm seriously creeped out by Instagram limiting comments on this post no matter how many times I change the settings

02.03.2026 00:01 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

775 signatures over the past day. Let's make it at least 1000. It's a small thing but it matters. We have to keep pushing for some semblance of accountability. Thanks for the support to those who’ve circulated and signed already

02.03.2026 00:00 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

Signed as an MBA alum and current teaching assistant. Botstein must resign.

01.03.2026 16:38 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Both/and?

01.03.2026 16:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A girls' elementary school. Dozens dead. Perhaps hundreds. Sitting with the profound evil and the mindfck and the knowledge that this war may well have been declared to distract us from the Epstein files and the conspicuously missing evidence that the president of this nation raped 13 year-old girls

01.03.2026 15:58 — 👍 38    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

Nearly 400 signatures and counting in just a few hours. Let's keep up the momentum and the pressure.

28.02.2026 23:41 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

As a former professor at Bard - this is so important. Haven't taught there in a decade but Botstein has been problematic for a long time. How can he still be employed?

28.02.2026 20:26 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Thank YOU so much for your great work on this. And sending all my solidarity, friend

28.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Open Letter to the College President Who Maintained Close Ties with Epstein If you agree with my general sentiments here, please comment below—just “signed” or “seconded” is sufficient.

Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

28.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 176    🔁 58    💬 4    📌 7
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Open Letter to Bard Trustees To the President, the Board of Trustees, and the Bard community, Simon’s Rock was the most significant and formative place in my education. It is a community I care about deeply, and one that shaped ...

Simon’s Rock and Bard community - if you agree that it is past time for Botstein to go please sign and share our alum penned open letter to the Bard Board forms.gle/hncrVWdNbpEz...

28.02.2026 11:34 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We all know what's in the "missing files": @katemanne.bsky.social reported on Trump child rape allegations in 2025 & the 2016 testimony of the alleged victim is on YouTube.

Watch the #SundayShot's interview with Kate M below and then view Katie Johnson's testimony.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naus...

28.02.2026 10:08 — 👍 70    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

26.02.2026 22:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, she was 13 in 1983, when the alleged incidents took place. KJ was 13 in 1994, when those alleged incidents took place.

25.02.2026 23:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

24.02.2026 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Prescience of Epstein Epstein was ahead of the curve: the shape of patriarchal exploitation and sexual abuse is changing.

Look back at the Epstein files and you can see the future of patriarchy--girls and women exploited as shared resources for male enjoyment and bonding rather than jealously hoarded and safeguarded as property to compete over katemanne.substack.com/p/the-presci...

24.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 39    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 1
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Sympathy for the Rapist: What the Stanford Case Teaches Sympathy for the Rapist: What the Stanford Case Teaches

The original essay from 2016 by @katemanne.bsky.social here: www.huffpost.com/entry/sympat...

24.02.2026 10:23 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And this is due to ‘Himpathy’ as described by the legendary @katemanne.bsky.social

24.02.2026 10:13 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

Right now, I do not think normal American realize how misogyny (in the Kate Manne sense) is driving the Republican Party. A through line exists between the Epstein Files, the refusal to investigate Renee Good’s death, the attempt to “curb” colleges, and finally, the Save Act.

22.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 265    🔁 72    💬 7    📌 5
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Bard’s President Should Resign Today Leon Botstein has been revealed to have deep ties to Epstein. It’s time for accountability.

The NYT’s framing of Leon Botstein’s frankly unbelieveable justifications and excuses is “tailor-made to stop us seeing the clear moral and institutional truth: palling around with Jeffrey Epstein for years is automatically disqualifying for a university president,” says @katemanne.bsky.social.

20.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

“Why is a man who showed such complicity and cravenness still presiding over young and vulnerable college students, in a position that requires not only trust but an impeccable moral character? One word: himpathy.”

20.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 26    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Bard’s President Should Resign Today Leon Botstein has been revealed to have deep ties to Epstein. It’s time for accountability.

Botstein palled around with Epstein for years and helped launder his reputation. The Epsteins cannot exist without the Botsteins. It's time for accountability katemanne.substack.com/p/bards-pres...

20.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 307    🔁 96    💬 8    📌 8

Kate Manne coined the term "himpathy" to describe this precise phenomenon.

19.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 65    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 3

Do meet your heroes--@tressiemcphd.bsky.social is so damn brilliant ✨️

19.02.2026 03:31 — 👍 45    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kate Manne Join us as Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kate Manne  engage in a wide-ranging conversation on feminism, gender, race, culture, education, and current events. Tressie McMillan Cottom is is a sociologist,...

Looking forward to attending this Stafford Little Lecture with @katemanne.bsky.social and @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @princeton.edu, later today. There will be a livestream starting at 5 pm, available here: mediacentrallive.princeton.edu

lectures.princeton.edu/lectures/202...

18.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 75    🔁 24    💬 5    📌 2
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Una obra que no concibe la gordura como un insulto ni un problema, sino como la forma natural que tienen algunos cuerpos, y que propone que la respuesta social a la gordofobia ha de ser política

Irreductibles. Cómo hacer frente a la gordofobia, de @katemanne.bsky.social

#YaEnLibrerías

16.02.2026 10:16 — 👍 25    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1