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To The Straight Privileged Men Of Beirut

main image belongs to The New Yorker

Oh brave straight privileged men.

I wish I could extract all that excess undeserved confidence you exhibit and sell it to the young female doctor who is more self critical about her medical knowledge than the guy who fixed my AC last week.

If only I could inject that obscenely unmerited grit into every intelligent woman and queer person in hopes that they could talk about their interests with the same level of forcefulness by which straight men speak about their shitty vinyl record collection.

I wish we could all be brimming with the same level of confidence of the barely mediocre man who demands that the object of his sexual desire be pedicured and perfect.

I also wish I could turn you into a queer minority female and have you take a stroll in Beirut.

In light of what happened this week, I hope someday you’re filmed without your consent and get the images critiqued and politicized on social media.