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Privilege lost and patriarchy recognised

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Privilege lost and patriarchy recognised

September 19, 2010
janefae·

http://janefae.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/privilege-lost-and-patriarchy-recognised/

Last but by no means least (and soon I will have to shift into a more general political analysis of all this) is what I have learnt about transphobia – and some of the worst tricks it has up its sleeve.

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Then I crossed over...and irony of ironies...I found myself living the same issues I had previously not understood.

And then there was this thing that people mentioned: its called "loss of privilege". Hey! I can cope with that. It means people saying rude things about you in the street: finding it less safe to walk home at night; having people stand closer when they talk and...former colleagues patting your bum at social events.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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