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[–]VioletRemi 27 insightful - 3 fun27 insightful - 2 fun28 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Imagine being so privileged, that you can swap to anything you want and gain access to all the spaces and everyones rights.

In my country when I was trying to get a job as an engineer or software engineer after university I was setting my sex as "male" almost always, because if I was setting as "female", most companies would not even look at my side. While when I am already in HR office, it was harder to them to ignore me. However, I still had few instances when HR just laughed into my face with "woman, software engineer, really?". Those people will never understand how it is to be a woman, they can never ever "feel" themselves as a woman.

[–]critical_of_WR 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think it is more pathetic than that. The TIM knew he never passed in "girl mode," and he would look like a freak during the interviews. There would be a 0% chance of him landing the job when he walked into the job looking more like RuPaul than Beyonce. Said TIM decided to walk in and at least pretend to look like a normal man and then conned the employer who has standards as to how his employees should look. It is nothing more than awareness that looks matter, and he looked like an IT.

[–]VioletRemi 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

When "gender theory" is so real, that you need to constantly remind people about it and about who "you feel you are", or they will forget and perceive you as a male or female instead.