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At last! All the reasons 'c*s' women are privileged

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ImNotAnExpert · 16/09/2022 12:38

takesupspace.wordpress.com/cis-privilege-checklist/

I had been wondering what this actually involved. NB:

'Don’t quibble with privilege lists. If you read them from a standpoint of wanting to deny your privilege, you’ll come out having successfully denied it but learning nothing. Read sympathetically and think about it.'

So there!

(it is perhaps unsurprisingly all predicated on the reader being from the US.)

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Wouldntrecommend · 16/09/2022 13:24

What

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Brat

At last! All the reasons 'c*s' women are privileged
ThorsBedazzler · 16/09/2022 13:18

I stopped reading. Once the list of privilege became a list of demands, it got too literally violent for me to see.

I mean, woo for my female cis privilege that means there's loads of medical research and testing into everything about me.

I haven't got the time to read the list, too busy revelling in the fact that everything I want (clothes that fit my body MY BODY) is happening almost the time and whenever I want it. Woo.

JellySaurus · 16/09/2022 13:17

ImherewithBoudica · 16/09/2022 13:12

Dungeons and Dragons for the new age.....

no, not buying it. Even from a level four Mage with Invisibility and a dragon card.

😂😂
The difference being that we knew our ability to fly was based on the roll of dice, not reality. And we made our LARPing weapons out of foam, so as not to hurt anyone. And when we came home from a LARP camp, the crown went back into the box on top of the wardrobe. Because, guess what, being a Zulana, the Warrior Princess was fantasy that did not belong in Dr Brown's physiology lecture.

ImherewithBoudica · 16/09/2022 13:12

Dungeons and Dragons for the new age.....

no, not buying it. Even from a level four Mage with Invisibility and a dragon card.

JellySaurus · 16/09/2022 13:10

Actually, I have no idea whether the writer is male, female, trans or what. But as the masculine pronoun is generally considered to include the feminine when a singular 3rd person pronoun is required, old-fashioned me just went for standard English.

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ImNotAnExpert · 16/09/2022 13:09

I know, Cattenberg. It makes my head spin.

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JellySaurus · 16/09/2022 13:07

Totally tedious. Doesn't want much, does he? Just complete submission to his wants.

Most of us don't get many of the things he expects as his right. Many of the things he expects as his right are not rights that anyone has or expects.

BTW I expect my government-issued identification to accurately represent who I am. It usually does.

Nobody's government-issued identification represents them as their wish-fulfilment. Except, of course, in countries were the legal gender fiction is law, and then some people do get their wishes fulfilled. But not the oh-so-privileged 'cis', they don't have that right at all.

Grow up.

Cattenberg · 16/09/2022 13:07

@ImNotAnExpert , not only must you use the correct pronouns, you must use them for the correct reasons.

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ImNotAnExpert · 16/09/2022 12:58

Actually, I'm now even more confused:

'I’m genderqueer, and a woman, and trans(sexual). Don’t like it? Tough. Both “she” and “ze” are good pronouns for me–unless you’re using “she” out of ignorance of or disrespect for my genderqueerness, or using “ze” because you’re unwilling to validate my womanhood. My genderqueerness and my femaleness/woman-ness have–and have always had–an uneasy coexistance (which should be clear from the strikethrough portion), and more than an actual change in my own perception of my gender, this reflects a change in how I communicate it through language, or a change of emphasis.

Several bloggers have used female pronouns about me during the period in which my about page specifically designated “ze/hir” (up until 8-27-2009). In case it’s not clear, I don’t think that’s any more ok because I now choose them.'

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Plasmodesmata · 16/09/2022 12:55

"I expect that there exists formal training about medical conditions affecting me.
I expect that medical therapies offered to me have been the subject of rigorous medical studies & approval processes.
I expect that medical studies are being done to improve & approve treatments available for people with my conditions."

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

NecessaryScene · 16/09/2022 12:54

I was surprised.

Ah, if only you were an expert.

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ImNotAnExpert · 16/09/2022 12:51

Are you surprised it was written by a male? I was surprised.

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Beansycheese · 16/09/2022 12:51

They're 😡

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ImNotAnExpert · 16/09/2022 12:50

Oh, found the caveat:

'This list was originally written in the United States in 2007; its applicability to citizens of other countries and to other times will vary. It was created by a white, young, transsexual queer/woman'

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Beansycheese · 16/09/2022 12:50

Christ, I bet their fun at parties

MouseLouse · 16/09/2022 12:47

Jesus Christ. What a tedious list.

"I expect that there exists formal training about medical conditions affecting me.
I expect that medical therapies offered to me have been the subject of rigorous medical studies & approval processes.
I expect that medical studies are being done to improve & approve treatments available for people with my conditions."

Stares in endometriosis

Absolute bullshit list.

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 16/09/2022 12:43

Clearly written by someone with significant male privilege!