This review can be summarized as "If you don't already believe some basic supporting set of feminist claims, then Entitled will not convince you." Indeed, Manne didn't set out to prove to the satisfaction of men's rights activists that feminism has value. Short thread.
2. That said, the authors seem to have quite an axe to grind. No one without ulterior, cynical motives could come away from reading Entitled thinking that Kate Manne is a sex-negative, "carceral feminist."
3. She *draws attention* to the tension of pointing out relative lack of punishment against the background of an otherwise overly carceral, retributive society.
4. Here the authors are dissatisfied that Manne doesn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there is no non-sexist explanation for the gender distribution of housework. But feminists & economists have been talking about this for decades. Manne justifiably takes this for granted.
5. The authors seem to take the demands of the incel community very seriously. But here they analogize the "involuntary" involved in failing to find a willing sexual partner to the "involuntary" involved in being forced to carry a pregnancy to term by law.
6. There are valid criticisms of Entitled. I think Manne stays within the central features of patriarchal entitlement too much at the expense of exploring more fraught edge cases. But this review rests on too malicious a reading to be useful. /end
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