Entitled

How Male Privilege Hurts Women

By: Kate Manne

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.  

A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential intellectual who has been described as 'the philosopher of #MeToo'.

Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny.  

In clear-sighted, powerful prose, she ranges widely across the culture - from the Kavanaugh hearings and 'Cat Person' to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren - to show how the idea that a privileged man is tacitly deemed to be owed something is a pervasive problem. 

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'. 

The consequences for girls and women are often devastating.  

As Manne shows, toxic masculinity is not just the product of a few bad actors; we are all implicated, conditioned as we are by the currents of our time. With wit and intellectual fierceness, she sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to be cared for, believed and valued.

©2020 Kate Manne (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Delusional

A myopic book based on a narrative seen only from the perspective of the so called underprivileged woman. It's just assumed here that men aren't treated badly and sail through life on a sea of privilege.. So why do women have to try so hard to succeed? Well the problem there is the assumption is completely wrong. Which leads to a fundamentally flawed comparison of a woman's experience Vs the illusion of a man's experience from someone who has no idea what it is to be a man.. In reality men are completely unprotected and have to compete or fail, defend themselves or die. This book seems to believe that if men don't allow women whatever they want they are being entitled, ironically a completely entitled argument. Unfortunately in modern society women are coddled, praised constantly and have outweighed power in a increasingly feminised west and this is what that leads to. A level of entitlement that's absolutely off the charts. A book decrying why men don't bend over backwards to make things as easy as possible for women, but no thought for what women themselves can offer society. The performance of the narrator was quite good, unfortunately the book itself i's pure delusion.

Incredible read with facts, cases and studies

The narration was amazing to go with the info provided, and fact checks. The structure was easily digested. Listen to this and get everyone you know to do so as well!!

Exceptional!

Every woman should read this book. It's eye-opening, brutally honest and very informative. At times I was shocked and angry, at times I was sad but I was never indifferent. I'm so glad I listened to it.

fantastic book

a fantastic book! I recommend for all people, including men. it really speaks to the unconscious biases and invisible dynamics that leave women in the face of harm. brilliantly written too.

Inspiring and challenging

This is a no holds barred account of how difficult life is for women, which men fail to realise. It is a struggle. It’s read very well and is actually quite gripping to listen to. I really enjoyed it. Thanks.