Male privilege is not something that's given to men in this culture it's something that men take. It's a sense of entitlement that's unique to those who have been raised male in most cultures - it's notably absent in most girls and women. 'Male privilege' is assuming one has the right to occupy any space or person by whatever means, with or without permission.What I'm talking about is what's been called ' male privilege.' They believe (foolishly I think) that the power they have and exert over others is a good thing and they want to hang on to it, they're terrified of losing this stuff.Standing with freaks never hurt anyone - it’s when we agree that we deserve the oppression and the ridicule that accompanies the freak’s position in the culture - that’s when the wound is mortal.There are only people who are fluidly-gendered, and … the norm is that most of these people continually struggle to maintain the illusion that they are one gender or another.I tell people that I’ve never been hurt by an honest question, and that’s true: it’s a cruel opinion that hurts, not a question.Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (1995) My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity (2013), p.I think there's little enough compassion in the world right now, so we need to grow our own to compensate for that. If we don't show ourselves the same amount of compassion we show others, we'll eventually come to resent the compassion we have for others.Katherine Vandam "Kate" Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist.
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