indigofer:

ireallyhope:

Maybe because none of these apply to me.

And for those of us who unquestionably DO have male privilege, it’s still not an on/off switch.  Thanks to the JOYS OF CISSEXISM and other delightful bigotries, we can receive masses of male privilege (internal or external) in one area and be denied it in another.  I’m really tired of the way this discussion gets simplified - for all forms of privilege.  It’s not like everyone either has ALL THE PRIVILEGE or NONE AT ALL, in any area - it’s a big mess of wibbly-wobbly privilegey-wivilegey stuff.  Some people *do* have ALL THE PRIVILEGE and some people *do* have NONE AT ALL, and some people are in between.

Take ableism.  I’m a person with multiple disabilities.  I still benefit from ableism in ways that people who, for example, use a wheelchair don’t (MONTREAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM I’M LOOKING AT YOU).  Does this mean I have ABSOLUTE ABLED PRIVILEGE?  No, because my disabilities *do* disprivilege me.

I do get why this is a difficult topic to discuss with the history of NO TRANS* MEN HAVE NO PRIVILEGE AT ALL WE ARE SOOPERSPECIAL MAGIC DECAFF MEN I CAN’T HEAR YOU LALALALALA combined with the nauseating trope of ALL TRANS* WOMEN HAVE MALE PRIVILEGE AND ARE SEXIST OPPRESSORS.  I do.  But at the same time, we *need* to have intratrans discussions about the complexities of these things, because none of us are served by pretending cissexism has no impact on sexist axes of oppression.

(Source: lovewallace, via whatfreshhellisthis)