The “literacies“ framework is as intellectually bankrupt as polarization right now. We will keep using it because when you’ve got one hammer and the NSF social science funding has dried up everything looks like a nostalgic managerial class nail.

EXACTLY this. They KNOW what they’re doing. In fact, it is the point. They’re not “dehumanizing” their victim—they recognize her agency and choose to destroy it, and that is exactly what excites them.

"You can teach a man what consent looks like but you can’t force him to care about it. It follows, I think, that we need radical solutions here: abolishing all-male institutions where such misogyny proliferates and festers and is fastidiously protected."

Kate Manne wrote another brilliant essay about the Cornell case. This time, it's about her own experiences interacting with Cornell's police department.

Thanks, and feeling very precarious now for sure. But it's the right thing to do

“… members of a fraternity posted vile things about her on social media… taking photos of her at her workplace on campus… She went to report it to CUPD at the encouragement of her boss... ‘They sent a male officer to take my statement. He informed me that I should be “flattered” by the posts’…”

Almost twice as likely, yes (compared to 29% of non-Greek-affiliated female students, which is still shockingly high but on par with national averages)

In light of all the horrible sexual assault in the news, this from my conversation with Kate Manne in February at Princeton still sums up my thoughts. Power =\= Good Men(tm). Power = Power.

"The dangers of fraternities were so widespread [...] they had been ranked as the “sixth worst risk for insurance companies—just behind hazardous waste disposal companies and asbestos contractors.” So dangerous were their activities that their commercial insurance carriers declined insuring [...]."

Cornell police edited Jane Doe's statement. Are we in pitchforks and torches territory yet? I think we are close. "As we now know, Cornell police also condensed down Doe's statement, omitting crucial details including the fact that she said she was 100 percent confident she’d been raped."