We don’t know what it’s like?
You have got to be kidding us.
Oh yes, there’s a lot we take for granted, because we’re…not punished for acting in a way that is feminine. Is that right Bucko? Are you sure? Have you ever taken a peek at the stats on male violence against women? Given those stats, isn’t it kind of obvious that we are punished for acting in a way that is feminine? Granted not in the way you mean, i.e. being a man and putting on lipstick and a tiny skirt, but in the more general way, which codes everything women do as irritatingly wrong and sly and womany. Women are very much at risk from men with short tempers, and such men are not scarce. Your discomfort with yourself is a you thing, and we do not care.
What? Women “have never been denied any area of expression”? What world are you living in? Women have been denied almost all “areas of expression” for almost all of human history. Literature? Mostly men. Women authors had to write under male pseudonyms to get published. Art? Almost all men. Who has leisure time to devote to painting or sculpture? Not women, that’s for sure. Science? Philosophy? Highly male-dominated areas of exploration and expression. Once education became a thing, with the founding of formal schools and universities, education was lavished mostly on male children. Sir Thomas More was unusual, in Tudor times, for ensuring that his daughters as well as his son were educated. The accepted “areas of expression” for girls and women were severely limited to child-bearing/child-rearing, agricultural work, cooking, needlework, laundry, housekeeping, etc. In other words, scut work, largely unpaid labor. Even in these latter days, when women are at last sometimes allowed to choose their “area of expression,” women are still underrepresented in STEM fields, in corporate boardrooms, and so on. Some career fields still remain a “pink collar” ghetto, such as secretarial work, primary and secondary education, and nursing, for example. “Pink collar” jobs are generally paid less than male-dominated fields requiring similar education and experience. Even in professions where women have made substantial gains in representation, the wage gap between male and female employees still exists. So don’t you tell anyone that women “have never been denied any area of expression.” That’s a lie.
Not to mention the stupid claim that we have never been forced into toxic male social dynamics that feel terrifying. Huh? What? Any woman who wants to advance professionally is forced into those situations. Most women who aren’t interested in advancing professionally will be forced into those situations. Women who choose to go into male dominated fields (such as auto mechanic) will definitely be forced into those situations. Some women choose to play along so they can achieve what they want, but others simply drop out of the environment.
Even in female-dominated environments, those toxic male issues have a bad habit of showing up. Nurses, teachers, librarians, physical therapists, etc, frequently have male bosses. Those fields are heavily dominated by women, but when a promotion to supervisor opens up, it goes to the man in the room.
These sorts of rants make it obvious that these ‘women’ (i.e. males in skirts) are not women at all. They have no idea what it is really like to live as a woman, because they’ve never done it. They’ve lived as some grotesque caricature of a woman, and think their experiences somehow cause all those that women have gone through their entire life null and void.