#flophudson

Yeah, I guess so. "They" usually is awkward for me unless I'm talking about an unidentified (not unknown gender) person or a broad example. If I'm talking about a specific person, "they" usually does feel awkward even though it's perfectly acceptable and often times the best word. One of the problems with "man privilege" is that its language seems to suggest that it only to encompasses grown men, but boys benefit from it too.

Yeah, I'm grossly ignorant of how much this has been discussed, but I feel like a lot of replacement phrases or words have good and bad that could easily come with them. Like "perceived-as-male" privilege I can see right away people going, "oh that person who identifies as a woman looked manly to me so she must have 'perceived-as-male' privilege" or some bullshit like that, but I guess that could come with almost anything else too. IDK, I've thought about using the term "man-privilege" before and just using man as an adjective. It's kind of awkward-sounding to me, but maybe that's because I haven't used it at all.

I mean like the colloquial use of the words "male" and "female" in general seem to be kind of excluding because people will say "male privilege," etc., when "male" is often linked to the idea of physical sex rather than gender identity, and I don't really have a good word to replace male? I can certainly reword things; I just don't have a good idea if there's a less cissexist way to use the adjective form of "man." Maybe "male" and "female" are okay to use in many instances because I know that many people do identify with those terms as well, and I'm just over-thinking. I just worry that it's problematic because my gut tells me that, and to avoid doing something problematic, I try to refrain from doing things I think might be.

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