Misogyny is the hatred of women, practiced only by a few bigoted men, a hatred which is far from systemic.

Sexual and domestic violence are at record lows and continue to decline. Women are entitled to equal pay,

positions of power and bodily autonomy, and these rights and liberties have been enshrined in law

and accepted by the general population. Feminism is the rule, misogyny, the exception. We are all

feminists now. This couldn't be further from the view of Kate Mann,

Associate Professor at Cornell University,

and author of the hugely popular and multi-award-winning Down Girl,

The Logic of Misogyny.

Today, Kate is not only one of the world's leading feminist philosophers,

labelled as the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century,

but according to Prospect magazine,

one of the world's top ten thinkers. Today, we'll be discussing Kate's newly released,

entitled How Male Privilege Hirts Women. Kate calls us to radically rethink our understanding

of the nature and function of misogyny. Misogyny is not the hatred of women and girls practiced by the few.

It is controlling and punishing those who challenge male entitlement, practiced by the many.

Misogyny is the law enforcement branch of the patriarchal order, a deterrent, a warning, a whip,

which sustains the hierarchy of men over women, as history and the

personal experiences of women so often attest to, those at the top of hierarchies often expect

things from those beneath them.

Before we begin, we want to say a huge thank you to Cullum St. Gabriel's and Westill Endowment

for helping us provide our

listeners with their much-deserved entitlement of philosophical knowledge, as well as all of our

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