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View submission: Trans Women, Male Privilege, and the Intersectionality of Patriarchal Oppression
It is a privilege in the sense that... for instance, you can go walk alone at night and not have to feel as threatened as a woman would. Or that if you are to speak, you might be more likely to be taken seriously. I refer to things of this matter...
It's not really a privilege if you have to pay so much for it. In a sense, it kind of negates itself. Sure, you can benefit socially from being seen as a man (which is the premise of my point), but doing so will suck for your mental health. The point is that you still have the possibility of benefitting from being seen as a male.
Comment by FabulouSnow at 30/01/2025 at 00:33 UTC
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for instance, you can go walk alone at night and not have to feel as threatened as a woman would. Or that if you are to speak, you might be more likely to be taken seriously. I refer to things of this matter...
For me, because I'm small, before I transitioned, I was threatened for just walking home in the afternoon. When I started to live fully as a woman, people left me alone.
When I spoke before transitioning, people ignored me and refused to hear me out or told me to shut the fuck up, cuz they thought I was "annoying and gay and weird" after I transitioned, people at least listen to me sometimes. Never happened before.
So all this male privilege shit, I haven't seen it once in my entire life and angers me when people said I had it because literally anytime I hear a woman speak about her experiences in a patriarchy, I relate because I also lived thru those exact same bullshit, even pre-transition
Heck, I even had people sexually assault me as a kid.