The_Walrus wrote:
beneficii wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
I don't think that has much to do with feminism. Just because it is written by a feminist doesn't mean it is "the feminist perspective".
It was a good article though, it articulates the difference between sex and gender well.
I agree, and that distinction is important because of the differing trajectories that boys/men and girls/women go down. A trans woman, no matter how passable, no matter how many procedures she can get done, will never understand being on the wrong side of rape culture
Now here I disagree with you.
Rape is wrong because of the violation, not because a female who is raped might become pregnant. A mtf has to worry about rape in the same way a ciswoman has to.
A man may not have to worry about rape as much, but they do have to fear other forms of violence- men are 3 times more likely to be murder victims than women, for example, and are more likely to suffer serious injury from assault. Men don't grow up being able to trust strangers late at night.
You totally misunderstand me. The possibility of getting pregnant from the rape adds to the
baggage. The fear of rape also includes the fear of pregnancy resulting from the rape. MtF's don't have that added baggage. Now, granted, a passable MtF who transitioned at an early age and received more female socialization would probably have a similar fear of rape and so would not, say, walk alone at night or become too outspoken on issues, for which she might receive rape and death threats. On the other hand, if you have an older transitioner, one who looks like an obvious dude in a dress, she would never have received that female socialization and wouldn't need to worry about rape anyway.
As for comparing men and women, it's completely different. Men do not face the same restriction on their activities as women do. Men do not have to worry about rape and death threats if they become too outspoken on an issue like a woman would have to. Men do not fear walking alone at night (except perhaps in the worst neighborhoods) like a woman would have to fear walking anywhere alone at night. As mentioned before, it's different for women and men have relative privilege because of it.
23 Oct 2013, 12:26 pm
