Better word for ,,privilege''

Many feel that the word ,,privilege'' implies that some sort of blaming is taking place.  Going back three hundred years ago, the term ,,privileged class'' indeed referred the aristocratic and bourgeois classes, which often oppressed the non-privileged in order to maintain their statuses.  I do not oppress other people in order to maintain my status nor did I do so to gain it, and I feel that it is unjust for me to be linked to the horrors of those times.  As such, I demand a better word to replace ,,privilege''.

I think I'll live with the word ,,feminism'' having a very obvious female skew by mentally performing its substitution to ,,gender blindness''...

(huy)