ntitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women is Kate Manne’s follow-up to Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, which won the American Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2019. Down Girl held that misogyny is a systemic issue, not just a vice some people have. It also coined the term and asserted the harmfulness of “himpathy,” a dubious kind of sympathy that people often have toward male perpetrators.
These ideas are central to Entitled’s thesis that “an illegitimate sense of male entitlement gives rise to a wide range of misogynistic behavior.”
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