”For most of us, our well-being is almost never jeopardized by our work environments.”
I found this statement astonishing. This is hyper-privilege speaking from a place of such profound ignorance that I found it hard to get my head round.
”But most of us are fortunate enough never to have had our toughness tested in this way”
I’m not a philosopher, but I’ve faced some fucking difficult challenges in my life. It’s hardly unique.
”Most of us have not experienced what t philosopher has experienced.”
This is true, of course. Most of us have to deal with living in a real world where nobody lies or pretends for us, so we can’t experience the dual pain of realising that not only do we recognise at a deep level, and abhor the fact that we’re lying to ourselves, but that others see the lie clearly and are unwilling to pretend otherwise.
Jane Clare Jones’s dissection rang so true though. A woman doing a publically announced flounce from a profession would be met with rolling eyes, grimaces and derogatory comments about hormones.
Therefore it’s clear as the day that the man who wrote the article treats the anonymous male transitioner in a very different way than he would a woman, thus proving that whatever objections he may squeal, he knows a woman didn’t write it.