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Kate Manne on Misogyny and Male Entitlement

Philosophy Bites

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The Relationship Between Male Entitlement and the Concept of Mesogony

Mesogony is a system that polices and enforces patriarchal norms and expectations. Men of at least a certain privileged status are entitled to certain goods like sex, most ously, but still more insidiously, things like affection, admiration, care,. And women are obligated to give those goods to men and not to take them away from men. In this vriew, it would be difficult for me to grow up in the culture that i've grown up in and not to have these expectations.

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