Post #2916942

@revoluciana@chaosfem.tw @celestestormysea@yiff.life consider a butch lesbian who passes as male in order to keep her and her femme girlfriend safe (this was common in the 20th century), the whole point of doing that is to obtain privilege for survival, it doesn't mean she's fundamentally a man, that's not how privilege works when I was pre-transition there's no question I received *some* level of (reduced) privilege just for being seen as male, compared to how society treats me now. it was never the same as a man receives becuse on some level they know we are different and we can't perform maleness the way a man does. but it's just not so simple as saying I was not treated differently before, and it doesn't reflect on my true nature at all, it was mere coincidence. privilege should be seen as a material factor and not anything to do with identity, and where it intersects passing as something you're not, it's always extremely complex and nuanced. for me, the takeaway of these experiences isn't "I never experienced even the slightest misplaced privilege" but "yeah I did, and that's fucked up and masculinism should be destroyed so this doesn't happen anymore"