Love your work and love the heart you bring to it. There's a key assumption in your article that is inaccurate and I wanted to let you know.
You said: "Cis boys generally do not question or feel discomfort with the way that society treats them. They are able to accept and enjoy their privilege, usually without even noticing it."
I'm a cis boy and me and my cohort of cis boy friends were *constantly* noticing and challenging the ways that society told us what it meant to be a boy or a man. The violence of "what are you, a girl?" was thrown about all the time by the enforcers of social norms as we grew up. And in my experience it was very normal for cadres of boys to comfort each other and figure out how to be authentic to ourselves within that toxic millieu.
It's complicated and this is a tiny comment but I thought that might shed some light. Cis-boys are brutalized into the binary gender system as well, and demonstrate typical human behaviors in terms of resistance.
Love your work and love the heart you bring to it. There's a key assumption in your article that is inaccurate and I wanted to let you know.
You said: "Cis boys generally do not question or feel discomfort with the way that society treats them. They are able to accept and enjoy their privilege, usually without even noticing it."
I'm a cis boy and me and my cohort of cis boy friends were *constantly* noticing and challenging the ways that society told us what it meant to be a boy or a man. The violence of "what are you, a girl?" was thrown about all the time by the enforcers of social norms as we grew up. And in my experience it was very normal for cadres of boys to comfort each other and figure out how to be authentic to ourselves within that toxic millieu.
It's complicated and this is a tiny comment but I thought that might shed some light. Cis-boys are brutalized into the binary gender system as well, and demonstrate typical human behaviors in terms of resistance.