himpathy

Manne uses the word “himpathy” to describe the sympathy that gets extended to male perpetrators and withheld from their victims.

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You have this concept called “himpathy,” which you define in the book as “the disproportionate or inappropriate sympathy extended to a male perpetrator over his similarly or less privileged female targets or victims, in cases of sexual assault, harassment, and other misogynistic behavior.”

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The series misses the opportunity to interrogate where this “himpathy”—the reflexive sympathizing with men in heterosexual disputes—comes from, especially as it pertains to Libby, the character most outwardly suspicious of women.

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