Although male privilege gives many benefits such as power to men, it is no doubt that this privilege taught and encouraged to men ruin their perception of themselves and women. It is clear that male privilege has a huge effect on women, but many individuals do not even come to think that it has become an issue for men as well. In Ellison’s article in Holding up Our Half of the Sky: Male Gender Privilege as Problem and Resource for Liberation Ethics, he states that: “gender privilege affects men’s moral knowledge and agency” (Ellison 95). In this context, agency defines as the ability for an individual to act and make decisions for themselves. Since men are taught to be this strong, powerful, and aggressive character, it teaches them that they
