Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century Amanda MarcotteI want to press this book on every schoolgirl who thinks that feminism is uncool any woman who thinks the most important gender battles are won pretty much every man I know and say have you thought about this Sophie McBain New StatesmanMale 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 clearsighted powerful prose she ranges widely across the culture 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 womens 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.