Why are your stock rants always so awesome? *wild applause*
The one small disagreement I have with this is that I think it's generally impossible for cis-gendered men to understand how awful periods are for many women, because they do not experience them themselves. A very sensitive man with a female partner who really suffers will have a great deal of intellectual understanding (and will do things like spontaneously bring home chocolate at certain times of the month, because he knows it is necessary), but he won't ever know what it's like to experience the female biology from the inside.
But then this is true of everything that involves the actual biological differences. Cis-gendered women don't know what it feels like to be hit in the balls (although I'm guessing that being hit in the boobs when they are all swollen up and sore from hormones might be similar), nor can we really understand how men feel about male pattern baldness.
However, these are genuine biological differences rather than social gender role differences. So your rant stands.
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Date: 2010-04-07 04:16 pm (UTC)The one small disagreement I have with this is that I think it's generally impossible for cis-gendered men to understand how awful periods are for many women, because they do not experience them themselves. A very sensitive man with a female partner who really suffers will have a great deal of intellectual understanding (and will do things like spontaneously bring home chocolate at certain times of the month, because he knows it is necessary), but he won't ever know what it's like to experience the female biology from the inside.
But then this is true of everything that involves the actual biological differences. Cis-gendered women don't know what it feels like to be hit in the balls (although I'm guessing that being hit in the boobs when they are all swollen up and sore from hormones might be similar), nor can we really understand how men feel about male pattern baldness.
However, these are genuine biological differences rather than social gender role differences. So your rant stands.