damn. from voz

[maevele]

Is Cis A Dis? And other air castles to storm… « FemmEssay

a cis feminist making a damn strong point about cis privilege.

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Re: Whoa...Your boss is a cis fag?

[lady-alyria.livejournal.com]

Now I understand. It's okay to stereotype and dehumanize as long as I don't have institutional power over that group. Wow, as a poor black queer female I can prejudge oodles of people!

I'm sorry, but bullshit.

Know who the system is made up of? Us. The system isn't just a bunch of rich white heterosexual cis-men. Every single person contributes to a system that oppresses so many. There aren't enough rich white heterosexual cis-men in the world to keep everyone down. One minority keeps down the other and vice versa. Buying into this crap is what keeps the system running.

Maybe Voz doesn't have any institutional power, but maybe someone that reads this thread does. Maybe next time they are interviewing people for positions somewhere in the back of their mind they remember what Voz said and even though they can't put their finger on why, the gay man that applied for the job just doesn't seem the "right fit".

You can't just be like "I'm a victim to the big bad system and therefore not responsible for what I say or do" when your actions perpetuate the big bad system.

Re: Whoa...Your boss is a cis fag?

[estrobutch.livejournal.com]

"poor black queer female" you forgot to mention your also an olympic gymnast of cis privilege. Those were some fancy back flips. but no I do not believe that a homophobe is going to listen to a woman who is queer and trans and decide to bring their homophobia into the workplace because of what she said.

and she wasn't "keeping another minority down" she was calling out ppl who share the experience of being queer for their cis and male privilege. thats pretty different from you saying something transphobic.

Re: Whoa...Your boss is a cis fag?

[lady-alyria.livejournal.com]

She wasn't calling out anyone, unless she knows all gay cismen in the world personally.