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View submission: Trans Women, Male Privilege, and the Intersectionality of Patriarchal Oppression
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.
Comment by SuperPrussia at 30/01/2025 at 00:45 UTC
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Your experiences are not representative of what my argument encapsulates. More than outline the complexity of individual human experience, you also show that just because most may follow a certain trajectory (which is still my contention), not all have to fit such a mold.