The stupid "privilege in the past" argument is a standard of debt/social responsibility more or less uniquely applied to trans women It's less common to be able to shift out of a theoretically privileged position post-utero, but if I lose my eyesight tomorrow will I have "debt"?https://twitter.com/maidensblade/status/1329479634954690562 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
And even in that situation, you would have actually had eyesight up until that point. You wouldn't have been forced to pretend you have eyesight because what you actually are is so unspeakable it wasn't possible for you to name yourself as it, the more accurate analogy.
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Replying to @onyxaminedlife @Nymphomachy
T*RFs when confronted about this will usually try to reduce male privilege to brute biological facts like "greater physical strength" or "can't get pregnant" or whatever
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And when you point out these aren't even CLOSE to evenly distributed among "male" and "female" people they get all mad and accuse you of quibbling over details
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I guess it comes back to that Atlantic article; if your father dies before your transition, there is privilege in being the AMAB offspring of a duke.
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I mean things like duchies generally have succession battles even when there ISN'T any kind of complicated question like what to do when the heir apparent transitions; the idea that their doing so would change the outcome without question is almost certainly fictive
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They gave Meghan Markle all this shit over what color her fucking nail polish was
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Anyway, just to be pedantic, England officially only has two duchies left (Cornwall and Lancaster), both of which are royal duchies (i.e. always inherited by a member of the royal family) The other duchies don't exist anymore, there's just dukedoms
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I.e. being a duke technically means you inherit the rank and the seat in the House of Lords but it no longer *guarantees* any money, land or direct administrative power Most dukes also inherit a lot of money but there's no longer any direct connection between the two
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
This is why you had that whole situation in the 19th century where people technically were lords and ladies but the farmland and money that went with that was getting steadily stripped away so they were desperate to marry their kids off to commoners who owned shoe factories
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Cornwall and Lancaster, for their part, are no longer physical duchies that exist as specific geographic locations They're more like a real-estate investment trust that is integrated into and gets special privileges from the state and that can't be sold
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