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[–]Tarlatan 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Examples from life:

A TiM joined a women's political activism group I belong to and eight days later put himself up for the top leadership position and instructed us all repeatedly at length that anyone not voting for him was the worst kind of bigot and would be outed accordingly.

A coworker came out as TiM and two months later was found to have taken a hidden body cam into the gym locker room to record our changing and showering; he faced no repercussions because he said he did it to learn how to fit in better and was deeply stressed by bigotry and hatred at every turn. The following year, he was caught doing it again and this time it led to a criminal investigation that found hundreds of vids and stills taken in that locker room, another gym's locker room, restrooms, and store changing rooms. He was sent for eight weeks of counseling and is seeking to have the case sealed because it was transphobic persecution of a brave and stunning artist collecting reference photographs.

[–]Kai_Decadence[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A TiM joined a women's political activism group I belong to and eight days later put himself up for the top leadership position and instructed us all repeatedly at length that anyone not voting for him was the worst kind of bigot and would be outed accordingly.

That's insane. Is he the only TIM in this activism group? Did anyone try to stop him??? I know this is part of the privilege aspect that he felt he had to nerve to bully the members in the group which appeals to the male ego but I'm just curious if anyone tried to oppose him.

A coworker came out as TiM and two months later was found to have taken a hidden body cam into the gym locker room to record our changing and showering; he faced no repercussions because he said he did it to learn how to fit in better and was deeply stressed by bigotry and hatred at every turn. The following year, he was caught doing it again and this time it led to a criminal investigation that found hundreds of vids and stills taken in that locker room, another gym's locker room, restrooms, and store changing rooms. He was sent for eight weeks of counseling and is seeking to have the case sealed because it was transphobic persecution of a brave and stunning artist collecting reference photographs.

That is so messed up. So to unpack this, the male privilege came from him getting away with invading women's privacy and the higher ups refusing to punish him for it because of his asinine sap story that really was just about perving on women in their vulnerable states without their knowledge. And these men use "transphobia" to get themselves out of legal repercussions.