A satirical 1978 essay describes a hypothetical in which these people claim superiority due to an exclusive connection to lunar phases. Kate Manne coined a portmanteau about how sympathy prioritizes the “bright future” of these people over others’ suffering. The “adventurer” is contrasted with the “sub-[these people]” in a section on approaches to personal freedom from The Ethics of Ambiguity. In an essay inspired by John Berger’s Ways of Seeing entitled “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey describes these people’s objectifying “gaze.” These people are defined as “the Subject” and contrasted with “the Other” in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. For 10 points, feminist philosophers often critique “the patriarchy” for prioritizing what people? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 99.25 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 95.57 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 15% | 81.38 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 96.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 105.14 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.20 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 27% | 88.64 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 89.80 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 99.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 98.25 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 92.80 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 86.17 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 87.63 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.60 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 86.17 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | OSU C | 20 | -5 |
| Alden Baker | St. Thomas | Macalester B | 20 | -5 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Durham B | 38 | -5 |
| Lily Morris | Bristol A | Edinburgh B | 40 | -5 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 46 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Imperial C | 46 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU B | 59 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 59 | -5 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 59 | -5 |
| Odysseas Gabrielatos | Warwick B | Manchester B | 59 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Arizona State A | 67 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Dartmouth | 68 | -5 |
| Hiru Senehedheera | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 69 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 69 | -5 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Minnesota A | 70 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 75 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 75 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | WashU C | 75 | -5 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Chicago B | 75 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Michigan A | 75 | -5 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Carleton | 75 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | LSE B | 75 | -5 |
| Kevin He | Toronto E | Queen's B | 76 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Carleton | 77 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | ERAU A | 77 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | North Carolina A | 78 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland A | 78 | -5 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins A | 78 | -5 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Penn B | 78 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland C | 78 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Sheffield A | 78 | -5 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Cambridge D | 79 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | UCSC | 80 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Mason A | 80 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | George Mason B | 80 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 80 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | McGill D | 80 | -5 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Alberta B | 80 | -5 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Birmingham A | 80 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 81 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Toronto D | 81 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt B | 81 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | VCU A | 81 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Vassar A | 81 | 10 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 81 | -5 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Michigan B | 81 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 82 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford C | 82 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCLA A | 82 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA D | 82 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 82 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto G | Toronto F | 82 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | McMaster A | 82 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto A | 82 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Toronto B | 82 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | Toronto I | 82 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 82 | 10 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | Queen's A | 82 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | FSU | 82 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UF E | 82 | 10 |
| Roman Bassett | UF A | UF C | 82 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 82 | -5 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU A | 82 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | Liberty A | 82 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | Liberty C | 82 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Virginia Tech A | 82 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina B | Tennessee B | 82 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers B | 82 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 82 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Truman State | 82 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 82 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Purdue B | 82 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 82 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | St. Thomas | 82 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | MIT A | 82 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Brown C | 82 | 10 |
| Atharv Chowdhary | Brown A | Amherst B | 82 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Wilson | MIT B | 82 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 82 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Tufts A | 82 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 82 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Brown B | 82 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Yale B | 82 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Rose State | 82 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | UTD A | 82 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UTD B | 82 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Northwestern C | 82 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Imperial B | 82 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Southampton A | 82 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 82 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Georgetown B | 83 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Johns Hopkins B | 83 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Illinois B | 83 | 10 |
| Jackson Hatcher | Nebraska | Minnesota B | 83 | 10 |
| Ryan Graham | Alberta B | Ohio | 83 | 10 |
| Owen Riviere | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 84 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | McMaster B | 84 | -5 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Tusculum | 84 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 84 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | Maryland D | 84 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 84 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | SIUE | 84 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas B | 84 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | Edinburgh A | 84 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Southampton B | 85 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 85 | 10 |
| Brody Davidow | George Washington A | UMBC A | 86 | -5 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge B | Sheffield B | 86 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto K | 87 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 87 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 89 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 91 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 91 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Arizona State B | 91 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | CWRU D | 96 | 10 |
| Orion Brey | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 96 | -5 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | OSU D | 98 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington B | 98 | 10 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago D | Louisville B | 98 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Indiana B | 98 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 98 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | ESF | 98 | -5 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCI | 100 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | Virginia Tech B | 100 | 10 |
| Yanis Vencatachellum | ERAU B | UF D | 101 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | ERAU B | 101 | -5 |
| Vivian Adolph | North Carolina C | Roanoke | 101 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth | Harvard | 101 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Bristol A | 101 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 101 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | Melbourne A | 103 | -5 |
| Nicholas Enbar-Salo | Bowdoin B | BU | 104 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Purdue C | 106 | -5 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Oxford A | 108 | 10 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 111 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 114 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 115 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Waterloo | 115 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | FIU | 115 | 10 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | UCF B | 115 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU A | 115 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | OSU A | 115 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | Pitt A | 115 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | Pitt C | 115 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | George Washington A | 115 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Penn A | 115 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | Missouri A | 115 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | WashU D | 115 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago B | Chicago A | 115 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 115 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Indiana A | 115 | 10 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Michigan D | 115 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Louisville A | 115 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Northwestern A | 115 | 10 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE B | Cambridge A | 115 | 10 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge D | Durham A | 115 | 10 |
| Charlie Castleton | Sheffield C | Manchester A | 115 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | LSE A | 115 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Cornell-DII | 115 | 10 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Rochester | 115 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Wisconsin | 119 | 10 |