"maybe there's a certain level of racial entitlement involved too. Made me wonder whether declaring one's self gay or 'trans' has become the last safe bastion of the overprivileged white male to act like an entitled jerkwad and not be challenged on it (because the Trans Woman is more Sacred than Mary)."
"maybe there's a certain level of racial entitlement involved too. Made me wonder whether declaring one's self gay or 'trans' has become the last safe bastion of the overprivileged white male to act like an entitled jerkwad and not be challenged on it (because the Trans Woman is more Sacred than Mary)."
Yeah, Dave essentially makes this same argument during the show. Personally, I don't like this way of looking things. Not least because I don't think many white people are choosing to transition so that they can stick it to black folks with impunity.
I had a long discussion with one of my readers about this idea of ranking oppression. That we need a discussion about whether white trans people are more privileged than black people, and yeah, I don't think that it's valuable.
I think some trans people (like some people in every "marginalised" group) have deeply absorbed a message of victimhood and entitlement. And they'll use that to their advantage whenever they can. Just a few weeks ago we saw a black man, Frederick Joesph, do it to a white woman. It's the mindset that's the problem, not the question of the skin colour or genitalia of the person who has it.
"maybe there's a certain level of racial entitlement involved too. Made me wonder whether declaring one's self gay or 'trans' has become the last safe bastion of the overprivileged white male to act like an entitled jerkwad and not be challenged on it (because the Trans Woman is more Sacred than Mary)."
Yeah, Dave essentially makes this same argument during the show. Personally, I don't like this way of looking things. Not least because I don't think many white people are choosing to transition so that they can stick it to black folks with impunity.
I had a long discussion with one of my readers about this idea of ranking oppression. That we need a discussion about whether white trans people are more privileged than black people, and yeah, I don't think that it's valuable.
I think some trans people (like some people in every "marginalised" group) have deeply absorbed a message of victimhood and entitlement. And they'll use that to their advantage whenever they can. Just a few weeks ago we saw a black man, Frederick Joesph, do it to a white woman. It's the mindset that's the problem, not the question of the skin colour or genitalia of the person who has it.
"It's the mindset that's the problem, not the question of the skin colour or genitalia of the person who has it." <-- This!