ABSTRACT
IF MORALLY ACCEPTABLE PLEASURE IN THE MISFORTUNES OF OTHERS IS AS common as I have made it out to be, why is it that we do not have a name for it? Why do we deny the experience, and how? Misogyny has a lot to do with answers to these questions. Striving to portray justice as blind, remote, and impersonal may mask a longing to make justice masculine. Various thinkers have sought to excise the emotional element deep within justice; such cutting away seems a necessary step to insisting that justice is not, in fact, disguised or sanitized revenge. Purifying justice of anything traditionally considered feminine comes at the cost of outright denial of Schadenfreude or identifying Schadenfreude with femininity.
