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“Studies show that girls - especially smarter ones - have severe problems in the area of self-confidence. They consistently underestimate their own ability. When asked how they think they'll do on different tasks - whether the tasks are untried or ones they've encountered before - they give lower estimates than boys do, and in general underestimate their actual performance as well. One study even showed that the brighter the girl, the less expectations she has of being successful at intellectual tasks. (...) Low self-confidence is the plague of many girls, and it leads to a host of related problems. Girls are highly suggestible and tend to change their minds about perceptual judgments if someone disagrees with them. They set lower standards for themselves. While boys are challenged by difficult tasks, girls try to avoid them. (...) Given her felt incompetence, it's not surprising that the little girl would hotfoot it to the nearest Other and cling for dear life. (...) As we can see, the problems of excessive dependence follow female children right into adulthood.”

Feminism Dependence Patriarchy Gender Roles Male Privilege Cinderella Complex Emotional Dependence Female Socialization

Book:The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

“Other victims of neurotic dependency are battered wives. The fact that they are so often financially dependent upon the men who beat them makes for a vicious kind of entrapment. It's emotional dependency, though that puts a double lock on the trap. "There's a kind of panic that many women have about being able to make it in any way other than being dependent on their husbands (...) They've been taught their whole lives that they can't. It's a conditioning process." In situations in which they have no effect on their environments, animals begin to give up. (...) the same thing happens to humans. Stay long enough in a situation in which you feel you have no control, and you will simply stop responding. It's called learned helplessness. (...) Having been "shaped" to believe there is nothing she can do about the situation, the battered wife goes on being battered.Only after she begins to disengage from her belief in her own helplessness can she break out of the vicious cycle of dependency and its brutal effect on her life.”

Women Feminism Patriarchy Gender Roles Violence Against Women Domestic Abuse Male Privilege Cinderella Complex Emotional Dependence Female Socialization Financial Dependence

Book:The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

“War is a masculine merchandise.”

Misogyny Patriarchy Manhood Masculinity Toxic Masculinity Male Privilege Patriarchal Society Patriarchal Culture Gender Discrimination Patriarchal Masculinity

Book:Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Hatred was easy. The permutations constant over the years: A stranger at a fair who palmed my crotch through my shorts. A man on the sidewalk who lunged at me, then laughed when I flinched. The night an older man took me to a fancy restaurant when I wasn't even old enough to like oysters. Not yet twenty. The owner joined our table, and so did a famous filmmaker. The men fell into a heated discussion with no entry point for me: I fidgeted with my heavy cloth napkin, drank water. Staring at the wall. "Eat your vegetables," the filmmaker suddenly snapped at me. "You're a growing girl." The filmmaker wanted me to know what I already knew: I had no power. He saw my need and used it against me.”

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Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

“I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.”

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Author:Peggy McIntosh

“The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.”

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Author:Shulamith Firestone

“Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the moment they're born. Keep an eye out for all those insecurities, and even expect them. Borrow white male privilege and just move through the world as if it was created for you. You have to kind of talk yourself into an imaginary space where the world is on your side and expects you to speak and wants you to speak. You have to create that space for yourself over and over again. Every hour sometimes.”

“All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.”

Thinking I Can Helping Can Do Information Overcoming Stronger Males Privilege Help Me Toxic Masculinity Male Privilege

Author:Nate Parker

“You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.”

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Author:Nate Parker

“For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.”

Hurt Males Sorry Privilege I'm Sorry Male Privilege

Author:Nate Parker

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

“However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings - even though most come at the hands of white dudes.”

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Author:David Sirota

“When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.”

Source: Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive

“Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.”

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!”

Ifs World White Disease Deserve Males Cancer Male Privilege White Genocide

Author:Noel Ignatiev

“Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.”

Giving Struggle Dying Giving Up Males Privilege Painful Entitlement Male Privilege Painful Death

Author:Gloria Allred

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