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Entitled

How Male Privilege Hurts Women

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Entitled

Written by: Kate Manne
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
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 An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl

“Kate Manne is a thrilling and provocative feminist thinker. Her work is indispensable.”—Rebecca Traister

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC

 In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from Harvey Weinstein and the Brett Kavanaugh hearings to “Cat Person” and the political misfortunes of Elizabeth Warren, Manne’s book shows how privileged men’s sense of entitlement—to sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, care, bodily autonomy, knowledge, and power—is a pervasive social problem with often devastating consequences.

In clear, lucid prose, Manne argues that male entitlement can explain a wide array of phenomena, from mansplaining and the undertreatment of women’s pain to mass shootings by incels and the seemingly intractable notion that women are “unelectable.” Moreover, Manne implicates each of us in toxic masculinity: It’s not just a product of a few bad actors; it’s something we all perpetuate, conditioned as we are by the social and cultural mores of our time. The only way to combat it, she says, is to expose the flaws in our default modes of thought while enabling women to take up space, say their piece, and muster resistance to the entitled attitudes of the men around them.

With wit and intellectual fierceness, Manne sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to our collective care and concern. Gender Studies Philosophy Social Sciences Thought-Provoking Discrimination
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Incredible book. A bit alarming, but purposefully so. Easy to read, compelling, relevant. Great performance by Cynthia Farrell as well.

Loved it!

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If you are super pissed about the state of the world in regards to women’s issues (especially issues pertaining to women of colour) then this is the book for you. It made me really angry, but in an inspiring way??? especially the part about gaslighting & how that got its name. I was truly shook. If you’re a guy who wants a better understanding of what barriers women face, please dear god read this book & absorb what the author has to say, then go apologize to all the women in your life because the world is crap & sh*t is ROUGH for women these days.

Made me mad, but in a good way

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I highly recommend "Entitled". A critical look at the patriarchy that taught me how far I still have to go. As a dad to 2 4yo girls, I share Manne's challenges about her child's education.

Highly recommended!

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Unfortunately, there were portions of this that stepped away from the unbiased examination of gender biases and privilege and slid into almost male-bashing. I was hoping for more of an unbiased sociological perspective.

Obviously, there are very distinct issues in regards to gender-based positions of women. But blaming without full examination of the underlying social structures that perpetuate these problems doesn’t move us any closer to resolving them. Repeating over and over that a social system is broken is only the first step to repair. And, we already have a plethora of books that tell us what is wrong.

The chapters on Incels, Gaslighting, and Control were very good. Examination of the reasoning behind these issues allows us to work towards solutions. We can not fix something if we don’t understand why it is broken, or what caused it to be broken.

Started off as an unbiased examination.

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