Unit 1 Manhood and violence
20 Topics | 20 Quizzes

Topic 3.3 Can the masculinity we know lead to violence?

But then, on top of that: what can happen when you lose (one or more of) those privileges, or someone tells you that you don’t have that right anymore?

Kaufman tells us that violence is often the logical outcome of the sense that a man has, in a patriarchal society, of entitlement to certain privileges.

It is not only inequalities of power that lead to violence” he says “but a conscious or often unconscious sense of entitlement to privilege”.

3.3. The third “P”: Permission