Are you privileged because you "can take your gender for granted"?

[kesstrel]

Apparently Angela Rayner MP thinks so:

"I find it very unpleasant that some of my sisters are often questioned on their gender, the very thing that many women can take for granted."

twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1042727730922614786?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Surely it's only a good thing if you think being treated according to your gender is a good thing.

Personally, I'd like to be treated as a human, unless the fact I'm female makes a difference.

And since that doesn't happen, since I'm assumed to be less competent at my job, assumed to not understand what I'm talking about when at B&Q, expected to lose my identity once I get married, or dedicate my life to my kids, no. I don't believe it's a privilege.

I don’t have a gender, gender is external bullshit.

Maybe being able to swallow bullshit is something some folk take for granted, but I don’t seem to have that either.

God, fucking take gender, Angela and “sisters”. We don’t fucking want it.

What thise “sisters” are questioned over is not their gender. It’s their sex. 🙄

No, not privileged. Women get so much crap for being women.

Less self-absorbed perhaps. Less attention seeking. Less ME ME ME ME MINE MINE MINE!!!!

My gender was and is violently imposed on me. My sex is female. My gender a patriarchal social construct.

Telling someone they are priveleged is a very quick win if you’re trying to shut them up. It even distracts from the fact that you have a fair few privileges yourself.

I admire Angela. She has achieved a great deal in life despite being at the back of the queue when they gave out brains.

I am so fucking privileged when a male customer refuses to listen to my explanation of why he can't get his own way and insists on a manager ( who he assumes will be a man) who comes down and needs me to explain the facts because the manager himself doesn't know the policy. Because my gender privilege means he just assumed I am naturally a stupid woman.

I am so damned privileged when a couple of men outside the pub I walk past to the bus stop say "Here love, want something to smile about?" points to crotch. Because my gender privilege as a woman means I must be sexually available for that sort of thing.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea Maxima culpa.

She's being an idiot.

Some great responses on that thread. I hope she reads them and starts to untangle sex from gender.

Blimey I've seen drivel before but that's gold-plated.

Angela: transgenderism itself disproves the theory of male and female brain sex or gender identity.

You cannot have a 'gender identity' that matches your physical sex unless you accept THAT the body has a sex. Which transgenderism doesn't.

That's it. That's all you need to know.

Some great responses on that thread. I hope she reads them and starts to untangle sex from gender.

I don’t think listening or thinking are her strong points.

Oh yes, I’m so very privileged by the fact that no one questions that I fall into the “weaker and lesser” gender category. I am so, so privileged that people automatically assume that I am worth less, am less intelligent, less rational, less trustworthy, and less capable because I am a woman. I am so extraordinarily privileged that I don’t have to remind people to treat me as a sub-human object who’s really only good for making sandwiches, cleaning messes and fucking.

They just do that automatically! Because I was born with a vagina!

Women are so fucking lucky and privileged, aren’t they? Wouldn’t it be so unpleasant if people started to question the whole oppressive social construct that is gender?

/sarcasm

some of my sisters

I don't have any sisters and Angela Rayner can fuck off.

I admire Angela. She has achieved a great deal in life despite being at the back of the queue when they gave out brains

You win mumsnet today

Hmm, can't think of any occasions on which I've been privileged by being thought less rational, overly emotional, fond of pink and prone to hair flicking, etc.

On the other hand, I did have to take an employer to court in order to get equal pay because of my sex. I won. I got a 10% pay rise, which was a huge deal in the middle of austerity cut backs (meant I could actually live on my salary ever month rather than having to dip into savings every month).

Sex is the material reality used as a (spurious) justification for our oppression, gender is that spurious justification.

fuck that. I do not want to be catcalled, or thought of as thick because of my sex so you can stuff gender where the sun don't shine

Who the fuck does Angela think she is? Jean fucking Brodie?

These feeble but obnoxious appeals to female socialisation in favour of the patriarchy are gender, Angela, you pomo-addled nitwit.

You'll notice this is all she has: haranguing her actual sisters and sucking up to the menz. You'll never get a single productive engagement on any of the germane issues. Not one.

Angela Rayner is a female woke dudebro.

Some nice responses here too!

Well, mental health is a privilege, in a way, I guess.

She doesn't stand a chance against the clever and articulate GC women of twitter. It's embarrassing.

Karen White is no "sister" of mine.

Other non-sisters are available

what is wrong with that woman

Did she lose her brain and capacity for actually thinking

These feeble but obnoxious appeals to female socialisation in favour of the patriarchy are gender, Angela, you pomo-addled nitwit.

Yep.