... an intersectional analysis, this chapter shows how men’s high-status group identities, including masculinity, cisness, whiteness, and straightness, evoke the same negative feelings when their privilege is exposed. Men use gender activism as a privilege renegotiation strategy to navigate these feelings and construct...

... of unearned privilege, perpetrators, and oppressors. Men perceive these narratives as threats to their moral sense of self. In other words, they feel like these narratives call them “the bad guys.” Both groups of men use gender activism as a privilege renegotiation strategy, or a way to forge a new moral...

... men to construct themselves as doing all that is within their power to combat gender inequality. Thus, their narrow focus on less effective individual solutions served as a privilege renegotiation strategy, facilitating their construction of themselves as good men. Unfortunately, these beliefs...