Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

by Kate Manne

Misogyny is capable of causing pain, to be sure, and it often does so. But even when it isn’t actively hurting anyone, it tends to discourage girls and women from venturing out of bounds.

misogyny as more about the hostility girls and women face, as opposed to the hostility men feel

we regard certain men as entitled to take sex from certain women.

fewer than 0.6 percent of rapes will result in the rapist’s incarceration.

It’s not that Gutierrez’s no meant yes to Weinstein, exactly; it’s that it meant nothing—it

But there is more to ethical sex than merely not doing something criminal;

Whereas testimonial injustice involves unfairly dismissing a less privileged speaker—typically, after she has attempted to make a contribution—epistemic entitlement involves peremptorily assuming greater authority to speak, on the part of a more privileged speaker.

Gaslighting thus results in a victim who feels a false sense of obligation to believe his story over her own.

“She’s electable if you f***ing vote for her.”

the idea of fighting for a better world—and, equally importantly, fighting against backsliding—is not a belief; it’s a political commitment that I can get on board with.

Learning what one is entitled to is—or at least should be—inextricably connected with learning what one owes to others.