No, you are right. These issues you claim are issues either aren't real issues, or are so insignificant in the grand scheme of things that they don't matter when compared to increasing our civil rights.
They are insignificant to YOU. They are NOT insignificant to natal women! Why the hell do you think that your desires are more important than those of natal women?
Just stop this right now. You have not been supportive of me one bit, so don't pretend like you support me now! You deny my existence as a woman and therefore will constantly fight against my desire to be considered equal to you. You hold womanhood up as a sacred ideal that only the chosen can achieve, and I reject that view.
That's baloney. I support a very large amount of what you seek. I don't "deny your existence as a woman", I deny your existence as
female.
On the other hand... you deny that the lived experience of females is important in any way at all. You deny that gender stereotypes are repressive to females. You deny that the biological realities of sex have anything at all to do with how females are treated. You deny the ongoing discrimination and second-class status of females in society. You've expressed that the concerns of females are "overreacting" and "not a big deal". You've shut out the voices of females.
You want to be accepted as being "just as much of a woman" as females are... while simultaneously dismissing females as unimportant and not worthy of your concern. You want to be accepted by females as an equal, while simultaneously insisting that we don't matter.
You can't even be bothered to actually list out what rights you are lacking and what you're asking for. You refuse to even provide an explanation of what the word "woman" means within your framework.
Instead, you DEMAND that females accept you as one of us, without question, without evidence... and that females bow to your DESIRES and make our own needs secondary to yours. And if we push back on your insistence that you - a male - should be allowed to get female scholarships and female recognition and all of the other things that females have been scraping out in our quest to equity in the world... you label us and attack us. And while you personally haven't done so, many, many of your "allies" feel entitled to attack females verbally, to harass them, to wish them death, and to threaten them with rape.
I don't hold womanhood as some sacred ideal. I do, however, think it has actual real-world meaning and is not some ephemeral internal feeling that defies description and must be accepted on faith alone.
