Maria Schottenius: By talking about misogyni rings, we check anything that has significance for all

”hatred of women is what hatred of women do”. Kate Manne is filosofiprofessor at Cornell University in the united states and has written the book ”Down girl. The logic of misogyni” reviewed great in many places, including in the new issue of the London review of books (no. 5) by Adam Phillips. He discusses dependence, ”men don't hate women, they hate their women” and makes a point of the author when she is skeptical about all the kind of psychological explanations.

According to Kate Manne is misogyni nothing you can find in different people, something we are. It is instead a practice, a lifestyle, a way of doing something – a logic for keeping women down. A social-political phenomenon that manifests itself in the patriarchal ideology that prevails. After that realization, it is of course difficult to say what to do next. But, as the writer is inside, by talking about misogyni rings we in something that is of crucial importance for all of us.