It’s not the act of privileging a certain perspective over another that rankles; that’s permissible if the objecting perspective holds the proper rank on the hierarchy of Valid Viewpoints. But it seems a man’s perspective cannot be “privileged” over a woman’s if the subject is himself.
I suppose this is useful information for men who want to have tendentious arguments about male perfidy with the sort of person who might want to put a “trigger warning” on Winnie the Pooh because a reader might have a honey allergy, but most men don’t. In fact, most –
Oh, never mind. Why state the obvious?
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