Quote Originally Posted by Noortje View Post
Hi Emily,

Thanks for the link to the article. I like how it views the entire issue through the lens of "male privilege". This is a close analog to the discussion going on here. Subconsciously, we feel that we own the world and everything in it, and that this gives us the right to treat women with as much dignity as we want. We feel we have the right to represent them in a way of our choosing. But we don't.
Hello, Noortje! Excuse me, but perhaps you're speaking for yourself here. You're certainly not speaking for me. I've never felt that I owned the world or that I had the right to represent anyone in the way of my choosing. If you're talking about MtF crossdressers, then perhaps you should say "some of us", or perhaps "a few of us", or "I and perhaps some others". In this post and your next one, you're preaching a bit, telling us what we supposedly think about women. Before you include me or anyone else in your assumptions, you might get to know us and what's going on in our minds a bit better.

On this thread that you started, people are proposing explanations of the behavior you were questioning. But I'm wondering if you're reading the answers you're being given, because in these two posts you're simply repeating what I've been hearing all my life--the clichés about how men view women, views which in our part of the world at least are just that: clichés, with little truth in them.

Best wishes, Annabelle.