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Not many people invent a word or phrase that's entered common usage.

Kate Mann, however, a philosopher at Cornell University can claim to have done so.

The term hympathy, a tendency to sympathise with male perpetrators over their female victims appears in Down Girl, a book that

analyzes the notion and practice of misogyny. A new book focuses on another aspect of male female relations, male entitlement.

Kate Mann, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you, thanks for having me.

Now the topic we're going to talk about today is

misogyny and male entitlement. Let's begin with misogyny. That's often thought

of as an individual person who's got some kind of resentment possibly against a particular woman.

Is that how you understand misogyny?

No, I tend to understand misogyny as a much more structural and systemic

phenomenon. The hostility or hatred women face within a social

environment that plays the particular role of function.

It serves to police and enforce patriarchal norms

and expectations by visiting women with that

the hostility or hatred.

Could you give an example of that,

just to be clear how that's different from individual people with personal problems?

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