This book started with a question: what has really changed since MeToo/#MeToo? The aim was to expose the myriad ways in which sexism is woven into and through our mediated culture. These structures have real world consequences and effects which serve to silence, marginalize and discipline us to accept a system of violence towards women. Except. We don't have to accept this, and these ‘fuck you’ moments have been very much part of the discourse around #MeToo. The question then becomes how do we channel this sentiment, and harness rage to empower us, rather than let it become our own undoing? In this final chapter I focus on three elements necessary for this change in our conversation and our cultural structures: rage, reversing and repoliticizing.

Rage

Germaine Greer said, ‘women have very little idea of how much men hate them’. This hatred has been legitimated through the sexist structures that male entitlement has built around us as a society. Audre Lorde writes, ‘we are Black women born into a society of entrenched loathing and contempt for whatever is Black and female’. If we take hatred of women, in all of their diverse forms, as a starting point, we can see how misogyny seeps through structures which serve to reinforce a particular type of masculine entitlement.

This male entitlement has been evident in the response to MeToo/#MeToo. When male perpetrators are exposed there are expressions of anger at the penalties imposed upon them. We are encouraged to feel sympathy for these men at the ‘injustice’ that has been visited upon them; after all, they were just behaving ‘as lads do’. Kate Manne terms this expectation of sympathy and support for men who have engaged in sexual harassment and violence, ‘himpathy’. Brett Kavanaugh's rage and explosive anger at the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford elicited ‘himpathy’ from Donald Trump and some members of the Republican party. Feminist theorizing and activism shows us just how important anger can be in challenging this entitlement. Anger and rage have re-entered academic and public debates and the feminist lexicon. Recent books and articles confront assumptions about who is entitled to legitimately be angry. Women are in a system not designed for them; we should all be angry.