Thinking "Male Privilege"

When I ask my cissexual female friends if they would have preferred it if their parents had decided to raise them male rather than female, most of them immediately answer “no.” Posing the question in this way allows them to recognize that the supposed male privileges they might have gained if raised male would not be worth the price of losing their female privilege nor having to deny or repress their femaleness and femininity.

As someone who spent my childhood desperately wishing that I could be a girl rather than boy, and who as an adult considers it a privilege to finally have the opportunity to live in the world as a woman rather than a man, I find those attempts to undermine trans women’s femaleness by decrying “male privilege” hollow and crass.

For feminism to ignore the society-wide effemimania and trans-misogyny we face is to allow one of the most pervasive forms of sexism to go unchecked.

After all much of the sexist behavior exhibited by cissexual men arises directly out of their being forced to disavow and mystify femininity from an early age.

Additionally, those of us who transition to female can provide firsthand accounts of the very different ways that women and men are treated in the world—a perspective that is especially relevant today given how common it is for people to naively claim that we as a society have transcended sexism and moved into a “postfeminist” era.

I agree, the privilege is a two way street, but that doesn't mean that it isn't worse for women. There's nothing men experience that quite compares to the vulnerability and fear of being raped whenever going out alone.

In some mideastern countries there is an entirely legal practice called bridestealing. Its when men ambush a woman in public and put a veil over her head, which now makes her their wife and property. She cannot seek help or return home or she will be disowned. She is now essentially a slave, without control of her life, just suddenly one day its taken from her by a stranger and this practice is sanctioned by society.

So sure, privilege runs both ways, but still, check your privilege.

>>8233009
>I agree, the privilege is a two way street, but that doesn't mean that it isn't worse for women. There's nothing men experience that quite compares to the vulnerability and fear of being raped whenever going out alone.
you are projecting, most women do not care. they don't want to be raped, but they do not spend their every waking moment avoiding places to because they fear it.

on a global level, women are still in the fuck zone in many places yes, In the western world, sexism is almost entirely social. Male rape victims also see much less support and their claims viewed more incredulously and derisively.

>>8233009
>but that doesn't mean that it isn't worse for women.
>implying it is

>>8232445
Are you stupid?
Male privilege exists because we live in a patriarchal society where men hold ALL of the power.
What you call female privilege is merely sexism which was created and is still enforced by patriarchy.
Attitudes to both women and men are dictated by patriarchy.
A woman having a door opened for her isn't female privilege, its sexism promoting the idea that women are weak.

I don't agree with CIS women who tell you that you will never be a woman because you've experienced male privilege, plenty of trans women can.

But from your posts you personally will never be a woman because you're clearly brainwashed by patriarchy and obviously have an arrogant male brain that is incapable of having compassion for the oppressed groups under white male heterosexual patriarchy, and an unwillingness to learn about the female struggle.

Bye

But perhaps most of all, what MTF spectrum trans people can critique feminism is a very different and far more empowering perspective on femininity.

Over the years, many feminists have argued that femininity undermines women, or that it’s purposefully designed to subordinate women to men. Such a view no doubt stems from the experiences of those women who have felt that the expectation of femininity has been forced upon them against their will.

But those of us on the MTF spectrum who have had the reciprocal experience—of inexplicably being inclined or compelled to express femininity that we were taught to avoid or repress—cannot so easily dismiss femininity as an artifice whose sole purpose is to devalue and disempower women.

Because we come to embrace our own femininity for ourselves rather than to appease others, we are able to appreciate the many ways in which femininity can be freeing and empowering for those who gravitate toward it on their own.

Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity—that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive—because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity.

In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

>>8233158
>Male privilege exists because we live in a patriarchal society where men hold ALL of the power.
lolno

Another misogynistic tranny, big surprise

>>8236764
>misogynistic
where?