Status Updates From Man en macht: hoe mannelijk...

Gender bias isn’t erased by competence alone.
It is conditionally suspended—if women also conform to expectations of warmth. Communal behavior seems to count in a woman’s favor only if it can be attributed to stable traits of character, of her own authentic nature.

read the chapters on male entitlness to consent and healthcare, the healthcare chapter in particular was SO interesting. I learned that studies have shown that people tend to be more sympathetic and worried about boy infants crying than girl infants?? As if gender bias couldn’t get more insane omfg

Gender bias creates a double bind for women in leadership and electoral politics. When women’s competence is ambiguous, they are systematically judged as less competent than men. But when women’s competence is clearly established, they are penalized on likability, being perceived as hostile, abrasive, or untrustworthy. Men do not face this tradeoff.

“When succesful, gaslighting robs the victim of the ability to name the harm done to her-and, equally, who did it.”

wow four whole pages 😭 I’m failing the 75 soft fr

Learning about so many disturbing cases 😭 this book has had so much research put into it I would highly recommend it!!

so far I’m enjoying the deep dive into incel culture. I had such a surface level understanding of it before this so I’m really appreciating how Manne is slowly building her arguments/points

What a dribble. How can any woman live thinking that everything is against her all the time? Most feminists are just hysterical and likely severely abused women.