To me, he is the picture of entitlement, and he also, I think, gave the lie to the idea that men are expected to be stoical and unemotional.
Why did you want to start this book with Brett Kavanaugh? What does he represent? During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we discussed why male entitlement is so pervasive, how people fail to recognize their own privilege, and how sympathy for victims of sexual violence fits into the criminal-justice system. I recently spoke by phone with Manne, who is an associate professor at the Sage School of Philosophy, at Cornell University. Manne examines current events, from the media coverage of mass shooters to the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, concluding that “an illegitimate sense of male entitlement” is at the root of many of the misogynist dynamics described in the first book.
Manne’s latest book, “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women,” elaborates on the concepts she developed in “Down Girl,” with a focus on male entitlement-a feature of misogyny that prioritizes what men purportedly deserve and dictates what women are obligated to give them. In her first book, “ Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny,” published in 2017, the philosopher Kate Manne argued that her subject should be seen as a “systematic facet of social power relations,” rather than a “matter of psychological ill health.” Misogyny, by Manne’s definition, is “the law enforcement branch of the patriarchal order,” while sexism is “the theoretical and ideological branch of patriarchy.” In drawing this distinction between the two terms, Manne argues that misogyny can survive without sexism, and that people can uphold misogynist structures without holding sexist views about women.
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