Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women Paperback – August 10, 2021

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I will confess at the outset that I am a big Kate Manne fan. I have recommended her first book, Down Girl, so many times to anyone who shows any interest in understanding how the patriarchy uses misogyny to reinforce the social order and keep women in their place. Entitled is an excellent second book because it beautifully builds on what Down Girl began by focusing on how the patriarchy and misogyny manifests in the way men and women see themselves and what their place in the world should be. It affects - literally - everything in our society and Manne does a great job using essential issues of the day (starting with the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and moving to other issues like bodily autonomy and domestic labor) as powerful lenses to show how our society tells men what they deserve while telling women what they owe. It's so well-written and moving and I can't wait to start recommending alongside Manne's other work.

If you're reading this in November 2024 and your blood pressure isn't already through the roof, may I suggest this rage-inducing collection from Kate Manne?"Entitled", written in 2020, offers a critique of the various ways male entitlement affects women, from elections and Supreme court appointments, to mass shootings, to the division of household labor, to broader societal expectations and role-carrying from birth to cradle. Combining statistics, writings from other experts, and the author's opinions (stated where relevant), "Entitled" sheds light on the ways gender and power intersect, clash, and (hopefully) can live in reason.While this was of course an infuriating read, I also found it to also be both informative and validating as a woman living in a post-Roe, post Election 2024 America. I appreciate that the author took time to emphasize that this is not merely a question of "men versus women", but how a specific type of male entitlement draws unequally from other qualifiers as well, such as LGBTQIA+ women and non-binary individuals, BIPOC women, and non-wealthy women. There are systems in place on individual, city, state, and federal levels that empower certain individuals over others, and learning more about what those systems are and why they exist is a good starting place to make changes. This book is a great-jumping off point for those who want to know more, and also provides references to many more books on related topics for further study.In addition to highlighting a lot of the ways in which gendered expectations harm both men and women, I thought this book did a great job of highlighting areas where male entitlement and the leave we give men to make mistakes or claim rights that we would not grant to women or others ("himpathy", as the author terms it) that we may not always have at the forefront, such as in college admissions and in the division of household labor among families who report splitting work 50/50.I think, especially in light of many f the events that have occurred since this book's publication (seriously, I hope there is a second edition of this book sometime because I would love to know the author's thoughts about the America in which we now find ourselves) that it is more important than ever for EVERYONE to be aware of the ways in which systematic entitlement and consequential sanctioned elevation of one group over others is incredibly important to understand and oppose in your daily lives. Hopefully reading this book and others like it will inspire you to demand what is just for yourself, others, and your communities, and especially the ways in which you expect your elective representatives to fight for your rights.

In her previous book “Down Girl: the Logic of Misogny,” Kate Manne introduced me to the idea that philosophy could speak to the common lived experience of women. In “Entitled,” Kate Manne has continued to make the philosophical exploration of misogyny relevant and accessible to an every day reader. Even more so that in her previous book, Kate Manne crystallizes in simple language the concerns and questions about how we can examine the “entitlement” of men in order to bring women and non-binary people to the same level of autonomy and freedom that men enjoy.As an aside, the pun of a book being *titled* “Entitled” continues to give me tremendous joy in an of itself. Kate Manne’s facility with language and the organization of her book feels like a filing system for ideas which otherwise were a jumble of loose papers scattered in my mind. I highly recommend.

Great book and so thankful you helped them have a voice…TO BE HEARD…. I’m a close friend to 1 of the women you wrote about and also a survivor myself of constant rape from an uncle for years. Grateful that my friend has you to help her be heard…keep up the good work…

I can’t think of a more useful book to understand the U.S. right now. Whereas Manne’s earlier book Down Girl focused on the ways in which society polices women who violate or even question patriarchal codes, Entitled looks at the extent to which men behave in ways not afforded to women. Manne looks at Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, Elizabeth Warren’s failure as a presidential candidate, incels, the unequal distribution of housework, the often horrible ways rape victims get treated, and other topics. Her chapter on female pain—and the ways medical professionals too often believe men while discounting women, even though it’s entirely possible that women actually experience more pain than men—is both heart-breaking and infuriating. Whereas Down Girl ended with near-hopelessness at thought that anything would ever meaningfully change, Entitled has a far more optimistic ending. Indeed, the final half dozen pages or so contained some of the most beautiful writing I’ve seen all year.