Mark Greene
1 min readJun 17, 2020

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You should look into the distinction between earned and unearned privilege. For example, your unearned male privilege suggests to you that women would consider “being attractive” a universally useful way to deal with power imbalances with male authority figures. Or that all cops are heterosexual. Or not rapists. Or male.

White privilege, like male privilege is a universal baseline for culturally constructed power imbalances that you, with arguments like this, maintain. You know the benefits being white or male grants us. You make arguments against it because you can afford to at the expense of others.

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Mark Greene
Mark Greene

Written by Mark Greene

Working toward a culture of healthy masculinity. Links to our books, podcasts, Youtube and more: http://linktr.ee/RemakingManhood.

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