A different perspective on female stereotyping

[Noortje]

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.

Ah, sorry, I should have written that a bit clearer. I was basically rephrasing the principle of "male privilege" as described in the article at Kotaku. The idea is that all men feel this way subconsciously, because it is what we experience all the time in daily life. Because it is supposed to influence all men's thinking, and because there are a lot of men here, I used the word "we".

Have you read the article? There is a passage I think about why men immediately go on the defensive when someone mentions "male privilege".

Of course I have read all the responses. I just don't believe that being able to explain a behaviour is the same as being able to justify it.