Why yes, this is what we’ve been saying all along.
I love having “transitioned to female” but oh gee I do miss the benefits of male privilege in business/career matters. My technology clients pay attention to me when I use my dudely real name and gosh darn it I miss that.
It’s so unfair that I have to think about this!
/sarcasm
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11 responses to “You don’t say”
Maybe it is the male privilege.
Maybe it’s the credibility and contacts built up under the dead name. Past performance matters.
Maybe it’s because you’re now a woman you have to work 3 times harder for half the pay and you don’t get to complain about that.
Maybe it’s because you’re not womaning hard enough, you need to dress better, talk less, smile more.
Yeah, all that. Plus you’re dealing with a bunch of mysoginist clients. Get better clients.
What I’ve been saying all along. The dudes want to be able to become women, but take all their male privilege with them.
“Cis”-women don’t have that option. We are women, period. We don’t get to play women when we want, and then get better pay and more respect by giving ourselves a male name and identity part of the time. We have too much cis-privilege to be able to just “deadname” our way into better jobs and better respect. Right?
OH NO iknklast!
I have always valued your opinions, but without realising you are a woman. A CIS woman to boot.
I will now have to devalue your comments by 50% just so you don’t get ahead of yourself.
Misogny – hard to spell, easy to play.
/sarc
I kinda love the blithe unawareness shown by this person. “Oh shit, women get listened to less?? Arg, a drawback to femaleness! Woe is me!”
And note the lack of giving a shit about women in general. The solution is not to push against the lack of respect given to rhe female sex (that would be feminism, ew gross), no, the solution is to accept that this is the lot of women but to treat being a woman as a costume.
The unintended (probably?) implication being that women have opted in to this shit.
Exactly.
For people so obsessed with their womanhood, they sure don’t know much about women.
This says more than I ever could.
https://www.facebook.com/AWomanPage/photos/a.495528654115430/1091010797900543/?type=3&theater
This makes me think of women writers who have published under a male pseudonym. In recent history Robert Galbreath stands out, and the initials J.K. are ambiguous as well. It says something about the persistent androcentric state of society that someone would choose not to publish under the perfectly agreeable name Joanne.
Maybe the troubled trans women could use more unisex names like Chris or Kelly.
Are you suggesting perhaps that Pippa Bunce did not deserve the Business Woman of the Year award?
Wasn’t the concept of gender fluidity invented for just this type of dilemma?
What would happen if someone who is gender fluid has a liquid lunch?