Anthony Pignataro

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Agency is not lacking when a woman is taking it upon herself to tell her story, or play her current part, in a manner that may be subversive or expose the bully using nothing other than his own behavior to embarrass him. This remains the case, indeed is doubly so, in a story in which she was made passive or, more commonly, her hand was forced (as in coercion) or she was taken advantage of (as in sexual predation, involving the exploitation of power relations and the associated social scripts; see Manne 2017).
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
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