GC women: If you had been born male, and you felt unable to get the rest of the male community to behave better, wouldn't you be ashamed and embarassed too? Possibly to the point of wanting to hide it or make it ambiguous?

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No. And you know how I know?

I live in a country that has done a shitty thing in the past. I do not see criticism of that nor my rejection and hatred of it as an affront on me as a person. I see it as a duty to push a community that I contribute to and partake in a better direction. I also don't see it as an affront to myself to hate white supremacism, nor do I feel I need to hide or pretend to be non-white in order to push back against white supremacism (even the one in my own head that I've been inadvertently raised with). Improvement in face of shitty societal influence is not an affront on my value as a person. Doubling down on shitty societal influence and pushing in favour of it is.

I don't see societal backwardness that is pushed onto my biology to be an intrinsic, biological part of who I am. I see it as a shitty ideology that needs to be fought against, regardless of who it is. Men who try to make themselves victimised and oppressed because they have to push back against the patriarchy are not allies. They believe that they're destined (and in a roundabout way, justified) to be fucked up because they're men, and that's simply how men should be. No man who sees violence and misogyny as an integral part of manhood is safe to be around.