I Broke Up With Him. I Didn't Reciprocate His Romantic Feelings.

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Part seven of our series men. We're taking a season long look at sexism, geny, how patriarchy really works and how we can all get better at seeing it so we can take it apart. This time janie's story and the phenomenon that the philosopher cape man has dubbed sympathy,. The kind of sympathy that's applied exclusively to males. Not to mention impunity, the striking, damaging and downright weird habit in our culture of letting men off the hook for the awful things they do - especially if they do those things to women.

Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by her loved ones’ responses that she went back to them years later to record conversations about it all. In this episode: Janey’s story, and philosopher Kate Manne, who coined the term “himpathy” in her 2017 book, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.” With co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee. Part of our summer mini-season of rebroadcasts.

To hear more of Janey Williams’ story and the conversations she had with friends, check out her podcast, "This Happened", available on most podcast apps and at thishappenedpodcast.com.