{"id":506,"date":"2014-08-01T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/08\/10-ways-male-privilege-shows-up-in-the-church.html"},"modified":"2014-08-01T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:59:00","slug":"10-ways-male-privilege-shows-up-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/08\/10-ways-male-privilege-shows-up-in-the-church.html","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways Male Privilege Shows Up in the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about privilege lately. Well, not just lately. I overheard that conversation at a Starbucks in Washington, D.C. more than a year ago, and it still haunts me. The Oxford Dictionary defines privilege as \u201ca special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group\u201d. Simply put, privilege has to do with how groups in society accommodate and cater to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past few months I\u2019ve had several conversations with male friends who disagree that they are \u201cprivileged\u201d in their communities of faith and that women are at a disadvantage as a result. I had been praying and mulling over how to break through this impasse when I came across an anonymous post, \u201cA Definitive Guide to White Privilege\u201d<\/a>. There are a lot of these lists floating around, but this one had a lot of examples that I think are also true in church contexts. I\u2019ve rewritten a few from my vantage point as a woman in the conservative evangelical church.<\/p>\n


<\/b><\/span>1. A person\u2019s male privilege is reflected the second he wonders why people are still talking about gender.<\/b>\n

It is reflected even more if he acts offended or annoyed when another person calls out and questions that male privilege. \u201cWe should all look past gender\u201d is a statement that can only be made by someone for whom gender is not a daily issue or negotiation.<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n

2. Male privilege means never having your intelligence or qualifications questioned because of your gender.<\/b>\n

It probably won\u2019t be assumed that you aren\u2019t good with money, that you\u2019re more easily deceived, or that your ability to make important decisions is dependent on what time of the month it is.<\/p>\n

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