Title: ‘Entitled’ Takes a Scalpel to What Men Feel They Automatically Deserve - The New York Times
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Content: by comparison, Kavanaugh’s testimony was “borderline unhinged,” Manne writes. Underlying Kavanaugh’s palpable fury (“red-faced, petulant”) was the premise that he was being unjustly deprived — not simply of a possible position on the Supreme Court but of the smooth confirmation hearing that he and his allies apparently believed he deserved. ( Manne uses the word “himpathy” to describe the sympathy that gets extended to male perpetrators and withheld from their victims.) Image
Kate Manne, the author of “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women.” Credit...
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The book goes on to parse the various “goods” that men, in Manne’s reckoning, have been conditioned to feel entitled to — admiration, sex and consent; a home where someone else uncomplainingly does most of the child care and housekeeping. Some of these things are “feminine-coded,” she writes; others, like power and knowledge, are typically reserved as a masculine prerogative. Some forms of discrimination are subtle, operating below the level of our conscious thoughts, but they still exert meaningful effects, Manne says.