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" Male privilege is assuming one has the right to occupy any space or person by whatever means, with or without permission. It's a sense of entitlement that's unique to those who have been raised male is most cultures - it's notably absent in most girls and women...Combine male privilege with capitalism (which rewards greed and acquisition) and mass media (which, owned by capitalists, highlights only the rewards of acquisition and makes invisible it's penalties) and you have a juggernaut that needs stopping by any means...Male privilege is, in a word, violence. "

Kate Bornstein , Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us


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Kate Bornstein quote : Male privilege is assuming one has the right to occupy any space or person by whatever means, with or without permission. It's a sense of entitlement that's unique to those who have been raised male is most cultures - it's notably absent in most girls and women...Combine male privilege with capitalism (which rewards greed and acquisition) and mass media (which, owned by capitalists, highlights only the rewards of acquisition and makes invisible it's penalties) and you have a juggernaut that needs stopping by any means...Male privilege is, in a word, violence.