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Male Privilege, the Girl Card, and Penis Envy in a Land Run By Men
Embed from Getty Images While traveling on Africa’s road less traveled, he learned about male privilege from her “penis envy.” — Narrow slivers of light pierce between the wooden slats around us,...
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Parenting a Son Can be a Revolutionary Act
She is determined to raise her son to not be what people expect a white man to be. — My husband is a thoughtful man. He’s the kind of man who scours the internet in order to thoroughly understand a...
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I Was the Seventh Black Kid on the Bus
Embed from Getty Images I have a somewhat dry joke to explain a bit of my history from my high school days, that I was the “seventh black kid on the bus.” That is, unlike the upper and...
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Passing and Privilege: White Male Aspiration in the Age of the Loser and the...
Embed from Getty Images — There is a tendency in America to think of people as either winners or losers. Winners possess traits typically associated with normative masculinity and capitalism: in order...
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White Male Privilege and Toxic Masculinity
“White male privilege” and “toxic masculinity” are terms that seem to be brought up now more than ever. Many men I know take offense to these terms. I don’t because I believe it’s true now and has been...
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How We All Benefit from Privilege
Embed from Getty Images — White male privilege is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days. Whenever any bit of injustice show up, we get the opportunity to trot out the tried and true WMP....
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I am Privilege
This is what privilege looks like. I am not silenced for speaking out of turn. I am not heard with automatic bias because of my gender or my race. I always have a seat at the table, always have a...
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White Men and the Well of Actually
Embed from Getty Images — It seems like a lot of white men like to be experts about everything. Years ago, when I was in graduate school studying linguistics, I was visiting my father. We were...
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How a Trans Woman Came to Understand Her Former White Male Privilege (A Call...
— If you’re a man, at one point or another you’ve probably thought to yourself, “I will never understand women!” And if you’re a woman, “what’s wrong with men?!” But your gender is all you’ve ever...
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Politicizing Sexual Assault
Embed from Getty Images — Of Course I’m Politicizing Sexual Assault . . . I don’t know about you, but this whole Kavanaugh nomination has me riled. Okay, so I admit that I don’t like his...
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Masculine or Feminine Fashion: How to Defy Sexism in the Social Dress Code
— Editor’s note: This post by author Steve Winfield was a comment in response to GMP Columnist Matthew Solomon’s GMP post “I Have Been Listening to Women.” — Hi Matthew. Your column here is amazing! I...
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What the Other Brett Kavanaugh Said
— Embed from Getty Images — If you’re like the millions of Americans, myself included, who tuned in to the radio or television to hear the testimonies of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Justice Brett...
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Why White Evangelical Men are Happy Right Now
If you call your local cable provider to order service, at some point in the conversation the customer service representative will invariably make you an offer. He or she will tell you that if you’d...
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The Undiscussed Reality of Privilege in Healthcare
As a member of the cancer community, I hear a ton of stories about disastrous trips to the doctor and not having needs met. I’m always shocked by these reports, as I have had nothing but great doctors...
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White Male Millionaire Podcasters Interviewing Other White Male Millionaires...
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King Irrespective of many of their...
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Privileged White Male
— How do we react to criticism of our race and gender? You are vexed and wondering how to respond as you steadily face criticism for being a “privileged white male”, despite the fact that your...
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We Need a Lot More Lady Cops
They are ALL men Having been in the volatile, but normally peaceful, Seattle area for over a month now, I have observed tons of cops tooling about in cruisers. They have all been men. Although I know...
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White Privilege
— I want to do a post on white privilege 00:04 but I’m white 00:06 I need to talk less have the mic 00:08 microphone a megaphone less I want to 00:12 talk about being caught in a rut not 00:20 having...
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What Is White/Male Privilege?
You can’t spend more than a few minutes in a feminist space without hearing people talk about privilege. And if you’re new to feminism, the concept can be overwhelming. What exactly does “privilege”...
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Remaking Manhood: Boysen Hodgson on the Personal Impact of Men’s Work
For generations, our culture has taught us a narrow limiting set of rules for how to be a man. The end result? Epidemic levels of isolation and violence for boys and men and for the multitude of...
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