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
AI can’t fix a shitty partner www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post... @lyz.bsky.social links back to the Silicon Valley "an Uber for [Everything I Would Otherwise Expect a Woman to Do for Me] and put this with @katemanne.bsky.social 's on sycophant culture yesterday and I am tired
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there is a reason the chatbots are mostly gendered female! it is the same reason that the word "robot" comes to us from the Czech word for "serf!" our society genders these things as tools and utilities, which makes them: female
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
"Certain men are pining for the service that women’s increasing and invaluable intellectual freedom has make them feel deprived of. Generative AI spills slop into a void of needy men’s dashed expectations. No wonder incels love their AI girlfriends."
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
“In other words: generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants.” @katemanne.bsky.social is provocative and insightful, as ever, with this feminist approach to AI.
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Great writing and I hadn’t thought about genAI this way. I’ve been obliged to use one of the AI tools a few times at work, and besides delivering glossy rubbish, the sycophancy of the interface is creepy. I don’t use AI in my own life.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
This is a smart essay. It helps me understand why the suckup-ery of AI chatbots feels so icky.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
As @katemanne.bsky.social notes, it's reinforcing male entitlement to female deference. If men wallow in AI porn and bots saying "yes, sir," all day, they may react poorly when real women say no. It could lead to violence. katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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So so insightful, thank you @katemanne.bsky.social (as per usual). ‘ChatGPT fills and fuels a felt need for the female syncophancy that no human being should want, and that privileged men should be weaned off their historical reliance on.’
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
Today's essential AI read... ... and I've never downloaded ChatGPT either. Kate beautifully articulates how I feel about it.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
"As the brilliant Tressie McMillan Cottom has written, there’s a deliberate ploy to use generative AI to disproportionately displace women from feminine-coded jobs in administration and customer service. (And it is doing them very poorly in comparison with actual human beings [...].)"
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
"The watchword of patriarchy is women’s service with a smile. Every woman alive is hence in the service industry to some extent or other, in being subject to the constant expectation of our emotional and intellectual, as well as sexual and domestic, labor." & older/powerful women also buy into this.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
Always read Kate Manne. In this piece: several reasons why Generative AI and LLMs, the girly chat bots created by guys who have trouble getting a date, are bad for women and loved by self important men who miss the sycophancy of women, who now don't have to put up with all their crap.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
"In short they miss female subordinates who seamlessly do their bidding. It’s a reason many have missed as to why generative AI is a pressing feminist issue...Dawkins recently beclowned himself by opining...that Anthropic’s LLM“Claudia”is conscious after spending a mere 3 days enjoying its flattery"
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
This and @timcrane.bsky.social recent contribution provide great examples of what philosophers can offer to AI discourse.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
"Certain men are pining for the service that women’s increasing and invaluable intellectual freedom has make them feel deprived of".
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 24h agoGenerative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Excellent observation by @katemanne.bsky.social "In short, they miss female subordinates who seamlessly do their bidding." open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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These data show the magnitude of the hiring penalty for fat women, and the fact that shaming those who take GLP-1s for weight loss in the name of body liberation is no longer the move, if it ever was. Women are smart: they know thinness has economic rewards katemanne.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
How to Make a Good First Impression as a Woman
A new study reveals the unjust key: be thin
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Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 4d agoThe key to making a good first impression as a woman, depressingly, is to shrink yourself katemanne.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
The key to making a good first impression as a woman, depressingly, is to shrink yourself katemanne.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
Fun fact (not) : after the 2018 Toronto attack, where a lookist (incel) militant killed 11 and injured 15, Ross Douthat penned an opinion piece where he leaned into incel propaganda and advocated for a 'fairer' distribution of women's bodies among men.
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last wk.' "Ross is one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor and a journalist of deep empathy," Bilton said. ' So those are words that have happened. www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minu...
When men do it, it’s farming and agriculture. When women do it, it’s gardening, and the modifier “mere” is implicit katemanne.substack.com/p/gardening-...
Gardening is Not a Relaxing Hobby
And it’s only sexism that made us think so
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A reminder from this elder millennial that your body is not purely content katemanne.substack.com/p/looking-th...
Looking the Wrong Way for the Gram
On turning yourself into part of the landscape at the expense of experiencing it
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If I had a nickel for every man who had ever labelled himself "emotionally open" and then gone on to dominate the conversation... katemanne.substack.com/p/green-flag...
Green Flags: A Theory
What makes a man ostensibly unproblematic?
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One of the hallmarks of fascist death squads and secret police is creating an alternative career path for otherwise unemployable people who then advance by indulging in their worst impulses. At ICE, you're not hired in spite of your trigger-happy, violent, abusive past. You're hired BECAUSE of it.
Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · 2w agoICE knows what it's doing. If it wanted to hire more responsibly, it could, even relative to its abhorrent anti-immigrant aims and values. The fact is that they want men like David Brouillette on the streets, committing acts of state-led terrorism and execution katemanne.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
A line I deleted from my essay about the violence ICE encourages: “So it was for David Brouillette. So it will be for the next shooter.” An ICE contractor then shot two women protesting tuberculosis in a detention center in Colorado. ICE undeniably wants this violence. apnews.com/article/ice-...
Off-duty employee arrested in shooting near ICE detention center in Colorado that injured a woman
An off-duty employee at an immigration detention center in Colorado has been arrested for allegedly firing a gun as a protest was wrapping up outside.
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This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: @kenklippenstein.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.social @katemanne.bsky.social @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social @derekberes.bsky.social Jemar Tisby, and Scot Nakagawa
Recommended Reading: Trump Administration's Modern-Day Blacklist of the Political Left
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Ken Klippenstein, Mark Jacob, Jemar Tisby, Scot Nakagawa, Kate Manne, John Pavlovitz, and Derek Beres
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Who better to promulgate racism and white supremacy than an unalloyed misogynist, with the requisite commitment to violently enforcing unjust hierarchies? katemanne.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
This is What Happens When You Empower Domestic Abusers
A snapshot of ICE killer David Brouillette’s abusive and violent history
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