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In order to maintain the certitude that the world was fair, subjects manufactured flaws in the woman’s character.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
But when it comes to questions about our most elemental freedoms, we should avoid arguments about personal morality and sin and focus on our fundamental right to live according to our own beliefs.
Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
We have norms for a vast number of categories, and these norms provide the background for the immediate detection of anomalies such as pregnant men and tattooed aristocrats.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
In other words, she began to take seriously the proposition that her individuality truly mattered.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
intractable
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“While a tendency to rage must, as does all behavior, involve some biology, it may more significantly reflect a patient’s reaction to adverse and inhumane treatment.”
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Such objectifying forms of treatment can seemingly serve not only as punishment but also ways of defusing the psychic threat that certain women pose.
Kate Manne • Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
What we believe is, in large part, how we are.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
remarkable specificity of micro-motives.