#theres been such a weird attitude lately towards womens discomfort with men thats just very like

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this is the weirdest transandro.phobia strawman ive ever seen like comparing the fact that ablebodied people will say disabled people’s bodies are triggering and something people need to be protected from to women who have some form of discomfort with men due to genuine trauma they have experienced. literally NO one is out here claiming men shouldn’t be allowed to exist in public or something, it’s genuinely just an excuse to be uncharitable towards traumatised people also the classic truther rhetoric of drawing in instances of gender conforming women saying masc women r scary/white women saying black men are scary etc in order to legitimise their claim that men r oppressed or “masculinity is oppressed” while ignoring the fact it’s actually specifically how these groups are failing at cis white male masculinity that gets them in trouble. honestly treating ‘people finding you scary’ as a consequence of oppression is silly as hell when being perceived as intimidating simultaneously allows privileged men to get away with sexual assault + gets black men killed by police. again white men designed the patriarchy on purpose to be beneficial to them, being found intimidating is a feature not a bug!! the fact its designed to be able to deploy the accusation of posing a threat against marginalised people in order to victimise them (whether or not they are men, btw, since black, trans, and masc women suffer worse from this whilst simultaneously having even less power to actually make it so) does not then mean marginalised people are actually the Real Oppressors for having legitimate feelings of discomfort and hesitation around their oppressors 

#the idea in general that like being perceived as a threat = oppression is stupid as hell sorry #its also like..almost blaming the person? #like when armed police shoot an unarmed person its not bc they genuinely thought that person posed a threat #its bc they are white supremacists #theres been such a weird attitude lately towards womens discomfort with men thats just very like #well just stop! get better! pull yourself up by your bootstraps! #and very little asking like..why they developed those feelings.. #because i agree being obsessively terrified of every man isnt a great way to live but i promise its harming them more than anyone else