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Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age QUOTES

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age QUOTES

1 " The men of the Red Pill who write about the ancient world would have their readers believe there is a straight line from antiquity to today, a continuity of male and female behavior...this illusion of continuity is actually an ideologically motivated strategy to resurrect ancient norms in the present day. "

― Donna Zuckerberg , Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

2 " Red Pill writers...have appropriated the texts and history of ancient Greece and Rome to bolster their most abhorrent ideas: that all women are deceitful and degenerate; that white men are by nature more rational than (and therefore superior to) everyone else; that women's sexual boundaries exist to be manipulated and crossed; and, finally, that society as a whole would benefit if men were given the responsibility for making all decisions for women, particularly over their sexual and reproductive choices. "

― Donna Zuckerberg , Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

3 " These Red Pill analyses of ancient texts may seem simplistic and misguided to us. In fact, they are not really producing analyses at all. Their interpretations of the Classics should be approached not as readings of the ancient world, but rather as aspirational representations of the world they wish we inhabited. "

― Donna Zuckerberg , Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

4 " As colleges move to replace some of the dead white men of the literary canon with writers who are not dead, not white, and not men, the living white men of the Red Pill have appeared as the self-appointed guardians and defenders of the cultural legacy of Western civilization. "

― Donna Zuckerberg , Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

5 " To the Red Pill Stoic, the feelings of anger and frustration experienced by these disempowered communities are actually moral failings, proof of their lack of internal fortitude, moral compass, and right to hold authority in the public sphere. "

― Donna Zuckerberg , Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

6 " By setting out models for how men should act to seduce women, these texts also implicitly script appropriate female behavior. Women who react appropriately, or as expected, to seduction techniques are rewarded with the descriptor "feminine," whereas those who do not follow standard seduction scripts are unnatural and unwomanly.

Such guides do not only give advice to men; they also condition their readers to expect certain kinds of female behavior and give them permission to feel violently angry when women do not conform to those behavioral models. "

― Donna Zuckerberg , Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

7 " The Red Pill solution to the false allegation problem is to create a society in which female consent is virtually meaningless, so that when a woman asserts that she has not consented, few will care. "

― Donna Zuckerberg , Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

8 " The self-evident danger of this view is that it encourages the reader to think of female consent as a foregone conclusion once the pickup artist becomes sufficiently skilled. "

― Donna Zuckerberg , Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age