• ☆♡ melancholia ♡☆
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    12 days ago

    its more socially expensive for a cis woman to treat trans women as women than for a cis man to treat trans women as women bc of the lower status cis women have under patriarchy in relation to cis men

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      12 days ago

      Ok let me see if I’m understanding:

      Axiom 1: women are the class that is acceptable to put-down and exploit under patriarchy

      Axiom 2: treating someone as “the woman” in a relationship (i.e. putting the feminized labors in their care without compensation) uplifts the one acting as “the man”

      How would it ever be more advantageous for a woman to enter a relationship where she’s the exploited partner, than it would be for her to enter a relationship where she can exploit her partner by putting the feminized duties on her instead