Livre d'Or

Your poor kid, I didn't know he still had to hide his interest in so-called girly things. I keep trying to seek out bits of feminism that have a better answer to this than "male privilege". I think there is an extent to which women who are perceived as masculine escape some of the negativity faced by men who are perceived as feminine, and trans women who are incorrectly fitted into that category by prejudiced people. But if I doubt that men have male privilege I'm certainly not going to conclude that female-assigned people with some masculine traits have "male privilege".

My lovely Hebrew student, who is only a couple of years older than Charles, was doing a reading exercise where you had to choose masc or fem grammatical endings for pictures of different children. He insisted on using the feminine words for the picture of the kid wearing trousers and a stripey top with short hair and a skull-cap, because "she could be a tomboy". He didn't have a good gender-word for the picture of the kid with hair in two long braids and wearing a skirt, but had no problem using masculine endings for this picture.