”Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like ‘well I don’t hate black people so I’m not a racist,’ but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you’re privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven’t been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.”
The Distress of the Privileged from The Weekly Sift
Of Dogs and Lizards, a parable of privilege from Sindelókë
What is Privilege? Not understanding, and understanding with difficulty from Gedankenraum
Why Teaching Equality Hurts Men from Foz Meadows
Noam Chomsky: The responsibility of privilege, with a video, from Aljazeera
Privilege vs. Rights from Good Men Project
On Gendered Oprression from Ozy Frantz
Male Privilege FAQ from Feminism 101
But I’m A Man, And I Don’t Feel Like I Have Any Privilege, from FTB
Privilege and Privilege 2 from Terminally Snarky
White Privilege by Peggy McIntosh
Thin Privilege, a YouTube video from Melissa A. Fabello
Privilege: A User’s Guide from HBR
“Male privilege may be more obvious in other cultures, but in so-called Western culture it’s still ubiquitous. In fact, it’s so ubiquitous that it’s invisible. It is so pervasive as to be normalized, and so normalized as to be visible only in its absence. The vast, vast, vast majority of institutions, spaces, and subcultures privilege male interests, but because male is the default in this culture, such interests are very often considered ungendered. As a result, we only really notice when something privileges female interests.”
~ Lucy Gillam, “When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege”
