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You can call it whatever you wish but aren’t all of our experiences the “lived reality of being socialized and treated as” our respective selves? We are all trapped within our bodies and cannot begin to experience anyone else’s life because of that physical limitation.

Honestly, can you explain how Jennifer’s experiences as a woman are less valid than anyone else’s when everyone’s experiences are entirely unique? Do you only consider the most similar, popular, and averaged experiences to be valid? Are people who have not shared similar experiences as you wrong because they are dissimilar?

Everyone has a different perspective on different issues. You cannot invalidate those perspectives because of their gender. That’s something that feminism has (previously) been fighting for, but it doesn’t only go one way.