Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

by Kate Manne

It will also involve teaching her that she has special obligations to defend and support people subject to forms of marginalization and oppression from which she will be spared. She will be obligated not to tolerate, let alone participate in, the legal and extralegal policing practices that oppress Black and brown bodies in our society, for one obvious example. Similarly, she will be obligated not to “lean down” exploitatively on the emotional and material labor of women of color, as have so many white women before her. And her sense of warranted entitlement must always be tempered with a knowledge of what she is not entitled to do, to say, or to rely on, as a person who will be born into privilege, along multiple axes.