male privilege

male privilege

The preponderance of power and opportunities available to men in society. (In common usage, the term is restricted to men who conform to normative masculinity.) Male privilege means you can walk down the street without giving a second thought to your safety.
See also: male, privilege
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • cock in the henhouse
  • henhouse
  • main man
  • bro
  • bros before hoes
  • my dawg
  • my dog
  • my dogg
  • stud
  • cherry-boy
References in periodicals archive
The denial of male privilege feels like oppression, but it is not in fact oppression; it is simply returning the share of power that never belonged to them in the first place.
The principle is a fight against a patriarchal system-one that allows male privilege and dominance over women.
There are ways in which misogyny exposes itself, ranging from general social exclusion, gender discrimination, male privilege, belittling, hostility, androcentrism, patriarchy, and disenfranchisement, to outright sexual objectification, violence, and femicide.
Recently, Kapoor's landmark hit 'Kabir Singh', a troubled romance, has crossed the Rs2billion mark at the box office, but has been blasted for glorifying male privilege and peddling toxic relationships.
President Donald Trump is a 72-year-old billionaire, and for many he epitomizes the white male privilege that Democrats often decry.
Bringing up boys under the shadows of male privilege is what women need to focus on as it is we, the women, who tend to make the men the way they are.
While Hollywood is presently dealing with its deeply-rooted and crooked gender politics, which have been brought to the fore with the emergence of #MeToo and Time's Up, two movements against sexual harassment and workplace inequality, Nobody's Girl Friday serves as a reminder of the early days before Hollywood turned into what Smyth describes as "a bastion of male privilege."
To his detractors, it smacked of white male privilege. O'Rourkegrew up affluent, attended the Ivy League's Columbia University, and married the daughter of a real estate baron.
We saw how damaging male privilege was when we were growing up and we're very happy to use whatever we have to demolish it."
Gay men use the masculine pronoun because they do not want to abrogate their male privilege, whereas toms may want to gain access to it.
What are all-male institutions for except to promote male privilege? And their toxic environments not only breed bullying within the institution, they do very little to prepare young men to respect girls and to have strong friendships with them outside the institution.
It's been three decades since Peggy McIntosh, a women's studies scholar at Wellesley College, published her landmark essay, "White Privilege and Male Privilege." In it, she observed that even her most well-meaning male colleagues-those aware of the discrimination female scholars faced--were nevertheless blind to the ways that they, as male academics, benefited from that discriminatory system, from easier career advancement to the power to decide curriculum.
The book is both timely and refreshing, placing the onus on men to amend their perspectives on women and check their male privilege. An appendix includes an action guide to engage men, and Kaufman's experiences as a leader, ally, and organizer appear throughout the book.
Although men in female-dominated occupations may be subject to suspicions that they are not "real men," their masculinity and male privilege are maintained through various ways, such as being channeled into male-identified - and typically higher-status - (https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2008.55.2.271) specialties , job tasks or (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520087873/still-a-mans-world) leadership positions.
The me too movement started out in order to highlight the prevalence of male privilege in the society, which results in sexual harassment and assault.