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I get treated with MORE respect now, way friendlier now, somehow face LESS sexism directed to me then when i lived as a man. I know this sounds unbelievable, but you have to trust me there when i say its true. One example: I was always lanky, to the point of almost being underweight. As a man i got shamed for this almost every day (eat a burger). When i switched to female, this dispeard like completely. Now i get praised for it. I still see that this is a feminist issue and that it is there because of the different expecations of beauty put on the different genders. But it still made my life easier. It might be the environment where i live (europe that is, if interested. I think we have a lot less open sexism and the subtle parts are less bad), or something else. I really don't know. But that is just my experience. So naturally i developed a rather critical view on how patriarchy and opression works.

This comment alone shows that you have very little understanding of how patriarchy, capitalism and women's oppression works. I'm glad that being a woman has made your life easier, but unfortunately feminism is more than about making your life easy. What contemporary feminism is missing is the emphasis on the collective, linking our struggles for equality in our own countries with our sisters around the world. It is also missing the radical analysis of society, substituting the fight for equal pay and the rights of all workers, men and women, with evermore divisive debates about what tiny little group you might belong to and how nasty all the other groups ( within feminism, of course) are to you. Those post shows a woeful lack of understanding of how ordinary woman continue to suffer discrimination, harassment and marginalisation every single day. The reason 30-40% of feminists may find it difficult relating to trans women is because of rubbish like this. Someone who clearly does not understand the struggles of women, but feels able to lecture us about how we've got it wrong.