Transition for male privilege

[caseyyy]

^ That's pretty much the only thing I'm looking forward to. back when I was in better shape, and working in a warehouse, I could handle things really well, but I'd always have a guy asking me if I needed help. I hated it. And I hate it even more now that I actually need the help.

[sneakersjay]

I did not transition for male privilege, but I'd be a liar if I denied enjoying it.

After years of being treated as stupid and incompetent or invisible in places such as Home Depot, auto mechanic shops, computer stores and the like, I'm finally treated like I have a brain.  Which I had all along.

But a trend for women to do it just for privilege?  I don't see it.  Pretty much all of the women I know enjoy being women.


Jay

[dalebert]

When I was just out of high school, I worked in a flower shop for a couple years. I was a delivery boy but for a chunk of the day I was in the shop doing odd jobs. There were women who wanted me to lift boxes for them and such that weren't that heavy at all. There was just this idea that I should do it and I think they liked the idea of me doing it for them. It wasn't so much about laziness (though it was a little bit, I think), but it just made them feel good for a guy to do things for them.

It was something I was well aware of at the time without really trying to analyze male and female too much. I just remember it seeming really silly. Maybe I was able to look at it more objectively because I knew I was gay though I was closeted at that time, and so I wasn't in a mode of constantly trying to impress women or prove myself as being extra masculine or whatever.