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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-09-24 03:43 pm

[ SECRET POST #1726 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1726 ⌋


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(Anonymous) 2011-10-01 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
But the addition of 'we are inclusive of any gender' feels like trying to have it both ways, which makes me feel... odd. I'm not sure how to put it into words, really.

And this is how I feel every time I open a college textbook with the intro saying, "I know it's sexist to use "he" to refer to an abstract third person, but for no discernable reason, I have decided to do it anyway. This will not offend you." And about one hundred other times every day of my life as a woman.

Take this as an opportunity to understand about one percent of what it's like not have male privilege. Even if you were not welcome in the AO3 - or even in the whole of fandom, which the text is nowhere near implying, that's just me being hypothetical here - you will still always have the rest of the world.

From your comment, I gather you understand this already, at least on an intellectual level, but I got this strong vibe of "it's making me, a man, feel uncomfortable, and/so that's bad," and that, I think, is really missing the point.