Thank you for posting this latest. Because it led me to this powerful statement by RadFemFatale:
"Men do not lose their power by changing their clothing, or wearing makeup. To imply that male privilege is dependent on how men feel about their bodies and how they choose to decorate them is the same as saying that women can change our status in patriarchy by altering our looks.
It's an inverted argument. Men who adopt femininity claim to be oppressed because they get a small dose of what women experience on a daily basis, compounded by law, by violence, by history.
Somewhat ironically, males who claim a desire to be treated "like a woman" then declare they are more oppressed than women, because in the process they are assaulted or killed.
It begs the question: What, exactly, do they think being "treated like a woman" means, if not an altogether dangerous way to be in a patriarchal society? Being treated like a woman inherently means being excluded, or being harmed, or objectified.
By all evidence, they must think it means the latter: objectification is the end goal for men who misappropriate our existence. And possibly, if we're optimistic, they hope that being treated like a woman means they can gossip about fashion with women, sharing a bathroom without men, and other "privileges".
Not the stark reality of existing in a female body.
When men ask to be treated like women, and then experience violence, they say they are more oppressed than women.
In every aspect men presume their lives and experiences to be the default, carrying more weight, even to the extent that when they pretend to be us, their pain matters more. They adopt our identities and still declare themselves the victims of the system that granted them the privilege to appropriate us.
When men accuse women of being exclusionary, they are entirely ignorant to the past 6,000 years of history which, through men, excluded women.
Women should not feel guilty about calling a man what he is. We have a history and culture of our own. Women are the excluded sex. They burned her, enslaved her, experimented on her, locked her in asylums, bound her feet, broke her body and erased her name.
Men don't want a part of that reality. They only want to be objectified. To be told they are sexy.
The fantasy they project onto women is the image they have become jealous of, like Narcissus reflecting back on a pool of water, with mirrors all around.
They are in love with this fantasy they create. It's a double mirror. Men who self-objectify are not identifying with women at all, but his own projection of us, so that we are twice removed: "cis women", doubly othered, and the man who falls in love with the false image, doubly removed from himself and the world. No wonder there is so much anger in this group. Men who call themselves women already hate their bodies and that insecurity is unleashed onto women.
Women are the excluded sex.
Recognize. No male is entitled to women's attention, or identity."