If a man or masc presenting person comes forward about sexual assault or abuse I think it’s incredibly shitty to immediately skewer them for the “privilege” they are exhibiting in being believed or able to come forward
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Yes there is a patriarchal power differential that skews us toward believing men over women. But sexual abuse or assault is devastating to ANYONE regardless of gender, and dismissing someone like that is FUCKED
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Privilege rhetoric is fundamentally flawed in so many ways. It's physically painful to read about it.
In the cases where it's relevant, it should really have the opposite emphasis: what do some people get by dint of class, race, gender et al, that all should have?
It also seems like it's most frequently people who are *not* the survivors of some kind of severe abuse who judge male survivors.
i.e. they are themselves "privileged". It's really weird and abusive.