Misogyny and racism arise as the accompaniments and intensifications of the purported self-mastery of the anti-consolatory philosopher, who has supposedly dominated his own internal impulses towards softness and weakness. These phenomena are not the necessary consequences of the anti-consolatory position, but they do reveal a natural temptation that arises for those who take the position: the temptation to take refuge in believing that (supposedly) showing a greater degree of intellectual skill or critical acumen than others somehow matters deeply.