In early September, Professor Kate Manne spoke about her new book on male privilege at an online event organized by a feminist bookstore in Corning, New York. About halfway through the Zoom session, an irate man broke in. “Women have no rights!” he screamed, hurling obscenities until the moderator removed him. Manne calmly continued, informing the group that she’s used to such vitriolic reactions. As she later observed in an interview with CAM: “I’ve always said that trying to draw attention to misogyny almost inevitably attracts more of it. Certainly, those kinds of things being said to me on Twitter is not unusual, and I get a fair amount of hate mail in my inbox. It’s par for the course.”
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