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[quote=Anonymous]That’s the point. Sure, I can “imagine” what it might feel like to be a [man/woman]. But I can’t KNOW. All I can KNOW is what it feels like to be myself. The rest is my imagination. Do you think all men feel the same, or all women? If you do you need to use your own imagination a bit more.

I am (as it happens) biologically female and I identify as female, and I still would not presume to say that I know “what it feels like to be female.” I know what it feels like to be myself, a latina female who is 5’6” and is from Chicago and had a mother named ___ and a hamster named Fred and went to Catholic school and was scared of the dark and so on and so forth. I don’t know what it feels like to be you, or a man, or an African American, or someone who was ephemeral afraid of the dark. I can imagine all those things, sure. I can tell myself that if only I was white, or a man, or not afraid of the dark, I’d happier. Maybe I’d even be right! But to say that “deep inside, my authentic self is white/male/not afraid of the dark” is silly. I don’t know what any of these identities feel like. I can’t know. All I can do is imagine. [/quote]

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