#privilege discourse

[intersexcrittor]

Some of you need to learn that experiencing different flavors of transphobia doesn't constitute privilege. I'm sorry, but the framework of "This group doesn't experience trans[x]ism therefore they are privileged." Is flawed.

I never want to hear the words "transfems don't experience anti-transmasculinity, which is a privilege" in the same way the words "transmascs don't experience transmisogyny, which is a privilege."

You sound fucking goofy and this isn't how "privileged" vs "oppressed" dynamics work. Falling more within experiencing one axis of oppression, especially one that has so much overlap with the other under general transphobic oppression isn't a privilege.

What is a privilege is being a part of majority, or non-marginalized groups; E.I. white, goyim, perisex, abled, neurotypical, etc.

If you are a white trans person, you hold privilege over trans people of color. If you are white, you do not experience the intersection of racism with transphobia, which is an axis of privilege. If you are perisex and trans, you hold privilege over intersex trans people because you do not experience the intersection of intersexism with transphobia.

This is not the same as experiencing different flavors of transphobia based on your gender identity, sorry. Neither transfems or transmascs hold any sort of power over the other based on their identities as trans people and their gender alone.

No, I don't want to hear the "socialized male" or "men/males no matter what have access to the patriarchy" bullshit, so save it. You'll just get blocked for being a TERF and for being ignorant to how racialized masculinity is treated.

This also doesn't account for transneutral, transandrogynous, etc. individuals who may experience a mixture of both or exorsexism. It doesn't account for people who are transfemmasc, or intersex trans people who may experience both transmasculinization alongside transfeminization.

[wildwitchofthewoodland]

Not to be elitist, but maybe read some theory about oppression and privilege and use those terms and concepts correctly instead of slapping some random buzzwords together whenever you talk about a person you don't like who happens to be white and able-bodied or whatever.

[briannapuppet]

It's hard to be a good witch

When people attack me, I fight back, and people have been attacking me as long as I can remember.

My patron, Gremory, is sad that I can be aggressive. I want to be brighter and less fraught with trauma, but then the bullying starts again and I don't know what to do.

Isn't it fucking perfect that the secular powers have labeled me a scapegoat, on account of my assigned sex at birth, my mother tongue, my birth parents' religion and my skin color?

That is what I hate about privilege discourse. Here I am, a child of poor climate change refugees from the South, poor Southern Italians, and poor Celts, born with my sex feeling like a joke or a curse, and I am the villain, because other marginalized people have been duped into directing their rage at me instead of the unseen, ultra-wealthy, racist thugs who run the show.

What a meager trade: instead of an ally, they got a punching bag to distract them from the actual problem. Instead of another soldier in the cause, they got the right to be the bullies and thought police of the so-called Left.

That is why we have leftist infighting. Because they want us fighting.

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[fourdramas]

i would like to read a well thought out essay on the way a lot of "privilege discourse" applied to the economic realm works to hold working class people down instead of lifting them up. Of course the obvious argument to be made is that when we tell people that they should not complain because people have it worse than them, but I think there is another argument hidden below that pertains to the consequences this is currently, already, having on educational politics. I might be biased because this is my field of work but I think "privilege discourse" has strengthened belief in the (social democratic) thesis that "no education is as good as high education" and turned it into a moral issue when really it is a economic issue. the point of public education is to allow people of all social standings to use education as a leeway to a higher income. of course people with no education are no worse than people who are highly educated and of course the access to public education does not negate the fundamental fact that it is unjust that office work is generally paid better than physically demanding labour. but politically incentivising people from working class backgrounds to not get a higher education just works to freeze social relations as they are and do not get us closer to a juster society - quite the opposite in fact.

[mercurialbadger]

Interpretation: fictional characters have more in common with cis males than trans girls

Yuri fetish dudes: *pointing to an anime character* This girl is a dad! 

The Audience: 

A cis lesbian, maybe even a “fictional” one, idk: I am a girl and I want to be a dad

The Audience: *some booing from the back rows*

An actual trans girl IRL: I am a girl and I want to be a dad

The Audience: *screaming from all the rows*

[ifiwereabotcouldidothis]

Privilege question

I’m currently job hunting, and I’m not sure if it’s okay for me to apply to jobs at workplaces focused on minority groups that I am not a part of. 

I keep coming across jobs for like, Hispanic immigrant organizations, and this great one for a Jewish nonprofit. I would love to work at these places, but it’s not made for me and the jobs should go to someone in the group who needs them.

[healthyproductivehoe-blog]

I've heard arguments that, as a bi person, straight-passing isn't a privilege i experience bc my identity is being erased. But i would argue that the erasure of my identity is not nearly the same level of oppression as someone being worried for their safety due to the fact that they "look queer"