Thoughts on this? Reading this it feels almost like seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. For years I projected a lot of this discourse onto myself, possibly as a way to mask over my own gender identity issues.
I held back every response I could think of because I didn't feel like I could convince someone I was bringing it forward in good faith. But if we bring up our trans comrades in the context of this dialogue I feel like we could really be taken seriously. Like it opens up so many opportunities for solidarity.
What am I missing here? What do you folks think?
Yeah I mean literally my first reaction was "not all men" which is used in bad faith and would absolve me of all responsibility without really giving the issues much thought. So I just never said it.
But hearing how this has also affected men who are marginalized in other ways gives me hope that I can use my privilege to build solidarity with those groups, and then as a whole we can collectively say "Hey, that hurts. Is there another way we can communicate this with less collateral damage?" and know that we'll be taken seriously.