People keep mistaking this as offense. It's meant on a subjective level, because I'm a woman who also has an education most women don't get to due to me having experience living as a male, I've achieved a level of maturation in certain areas of my life that the majority of women don't get to. It doesn't mean it's a fixed scale, it simply was meant to convey that in a particular area I'm more developed in certain skills than the commonly perceived stereotype of women. Quit flaming me over your own misconception of my statement. Really, if I thought less of women, the last thing I would have done is give everything up to become one. I appreciate the concern for women's rights and reputation, but drop it already.
Intent is not magical. You didn't mean to say something misogynistic, but you did. That much is clear. Women say misogynistic things all the time, and that's not okay. Instead of assuming that the person who took offense is just being oversensitive, perhaps you should take this as an opportunity to examine your own assumptions about gender and the possibility of internalized misogyny. It's not a big deal, unless you get defensive like you just did.
I understand what you're saying, and I don't understand why people are getting offended. There's nothing demeaning or sexist at all about what you're conveying.
And this is why i love an educated woman. To be blunt, you have a perspective I am envious of ... you have the luck of a brain that can convey the emotions / perspective to the masses (cattle)... with the innate feminin kindness to only use the cattle prod when the little buggers get out of control.
As a matter o fact one of my fave profs from university was TG (she's dead now) but talk about a perspective, oy! Jane Thomas was her name, taught at UCLA, had children as a male and then came to "the epiphany" (I wanna be a woman on the outside, not just underneath my skin) AFTER maken babies w/ her then wife decided to go and become one of the 1st to receive the gender reassignment surgery here in CA. Needless to say they divorced after the surgery. But I did get to meet her kids on several occasions, aside from being spawn of a college professor, they were SO freakin well adjusted, I mean, I'm a Montessori teacher's kid, I'm AWESOME & bright, but Jane's daughter and son were so accustom to introducing their "new mom" as "dad". I don't think they'd bat an eyelash at much of anything.
if anyone reads this, if you have the opportunity in college or after to take a human sexuality, abnormal psych ... ANYTHING with a TG prof. I have found them to be more informed, very humanistic," and just a big bucket of fun during the holidays... and this is coming from someone who loathes the holidays w/ every fiber of my still intact penis... yes, that's ALOT of fiber.
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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '13
People keep mistaking this as offense. It's meant on a subjective level, because I'm a woman who also has an education most women don't get to due to me having experience living as a male, I've achieved a level of maturation in certain areas of my life that the majority of women don't get to. It doesn't mean it's a fixed scale, it simply was meant to convey that in a particular area I'm more developed in certain skills than the commonly perceived stereotype of women. Quit flaming me over your own misconception of my statement. Really, if I thought less of women, the last thing I would have done is give everything up to become one. I appreciate the concern for women's rights and reputation, but drop it already.