*MAB = Male At Birth. I use it or MAAB not for PC reasons, but because it seems to be acceptable to both Trans Activists and their RadFem opponents

I think you experienced something that all members of ‘fringe’ phenomenon do when outsiders are seemingly authorized to deliver the macro view, they do so vociferously and with the sanctimonious airs of Woodrow Wilson and his little brown brothers the world ’round.

or am I wrong?

You’re correct, I did enjoy popular music as a teenager. I still do to this day. This must explain why I am such a terrible activist.

I admit this blog entry isn’t the best way to get to know the whole of my work as a human rights activist, but I’m not sure how I can begin to address your comment. You came here with a load of assumptions about my experience and privilege and didn’t unload any information about your own.

Starting with questions would get you some answers, maybe?

Darling, having gone to a higschool that had “a paste-up riot grrrl inflected underground newspaper” and where a friend “from Gay/Straight Alliance turned [you] on to Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, and Huggy Bear” doesn’t establish your “cred.”

Far, far from it!

Rather it shows that you come from a background of some privilege and great whiteness, utterly unlike that of the vast majority of “sex workers”, in America and throughout the world. You’d be hardpressed to come up with anything that demonstrates less “cred” actually.

The post further demonstrates that while you really, really enjoy talking about yourself, the process doesn’t seem to have given you much insight into yourself. Or the world. Or how things work.

On the plus, side you are one fucking funny princess and all around droning narcissist.

Please keep the laughs and horrifically misguided self-promotion coming.

Thanks for responding. I am in total agreement about the dubiousness of police involvement or any kind of “enforcement” on issues like this – with the possible exception of enforcement on the client side. I am in full support of arresting men who go abroad to avail themselves of sex workers who are often underage slaves.

Double thanks for pointing out ways I can listen. You’re right of course that being “invisible” is mostly a function of society not paying attention.

I was once told that men can have a place in the feminist movement – doing the photocopying and fetching coffee. A joke, obviously, but one with a legitimate point. I am continually reminded just how poor a job I’m doing of shutting up and listening. As “Used My Ass!” has said I cannot and should not speak for, well, anyone but myself. Even so I muddle along hoping to be corrected when necessary, but also actively trying to help my sons and my friends be better human beings. Sometimes that involves attempting to impart my best understanding of the experience of women and strangers. The act of imagining another person’s experience is crucial to the development of empathy. How else are we supposed to get better at this?