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Expectations about what constitutes being qualified for leadership positions. The automatic deferring to old men as authority figures over other people (trans p
by Daishiman 6y ago
Expectations about what constitutes being qualified for leadership positions. The automatic deferring to old men as authority figures over other people (trans people have direct experience). The way most many carry out competition. The idea of stoic sternness as being the ideal. Tone and voice.
Trans people who express themselves as male have a ton of interesting anecdotes about how they were suddenly seen as more competent just for being men.
- secondcoming 6y agoIs this exclusive to white society?
- Daishiman 6y agoIf anything the whole macho leadership thing is even more apparent in less developed places.