my account of misogyny doesn’t require us to know what someone is feeling, deep inside, in order to say that they are perpetuating or enabling misogyny. What we need to know is something we are often in a much better position to establish: that a girl or woman is facing disproportionately or distinctively gendered hostile treatment because she is a woman in a man’s world—that is, a woman in a historically patriarchal society (which includes, I believe, most if not all of them).
