Evan Urquhart

I have a longer thought on this (you're shocked) but it will have to wait

The on-topic long version I already wrote: https://newrepublic.com/article/132606/feminism-political-solidarity …

The tangential one: I think something key is lost with the unwritten rule about straight cis women *not* using/appropriating terms like butch/femme to describe self-conception and self-presentation

Specifically, feminine self-presentation among cis straight women: Is it doing what comes naturally and going with the flow and effortless conformism? Maybe sometimes? Is it more often unwanted effort/pragmatism/irony? Perhaps?

Big-picture question is about the problem with overestimating the ease experienced by whichever category has been determined the privileged one in whichever conversation.

I've been tweeting occasionally about the ways in which female socialization and being perceived as a woman for 38 yrs has been detrimental in my life as a trans man- and of course this is even more true of cis women.

Ofc, trans women are just about the most despised and vulnerable group we have. So, none of that is to say THEY have some sort of advantage from not getting that early female experience. But the advantage to cis women is significantly undercut by being, well women.

I think the problem here comes from the need both sides in this debate have to determine The True Oppressed, and to cast the remaining ppl as The Privileged.