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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
You aren't wrong. If I, as a man, decide to wear a dress, wearing a dress is now a thing men do.
Look into John Money, the founder of gender theory.
Comment by Express-Stop7830 at 14/01/2025 at 13:27 UTC
15 upvotes, 1 direct replies
When my grandmother and great-aunt were young (late 1930s-early 1940s), women started wearing slacks. They showed me a picture of men (their brother and friends) wearing dresses as their idiotic man way of saying "women in slacks look silly. See? See how silly this is?"
Obviously, women continued to wear slacks and normalize it. (I think the men gave up on the dresses because a lack of pockets, generally more constricting design of dresses then, and because they went full on with brassieres.)
Comment by Mediocre_Let1814 at 14/01/2025 at 10:30 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
And notorious child abuser!
Comment by Juli3tD3lta at 14/01/2025 at 06:45 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Please don’t look into John Money
Comment by [deleted] at 14/01/2025 at 16:47 UTC
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Comment by Local-Rest-5501 at 15/01/2025 at 06:24 UTC
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Transgender exist since looooonggggg before him. He invented nothing.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/01/2025 at 09:59 UTC
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John Money didn't believe in an inherent gender identity. He believed that if you told someone they were a specific gender, and they had no reference of their own biological sex to go by, they'd just accept it as fact. Unfortunately, he was very very wrong, proving that people do in fact have an inherent sense of their own identity without reference to their own biology. His work proves trans people exist. Transphobes viewing him uncritically think his work proves "trans bad."
Comment by 3nderslime at 14/01/2025 at 18:58 UTC
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John Money actually only coined the term "gender roles". He also thought transgender people only existed because they were badly raised by their parents, which is what he tried to prove with his experiments.
Comment by Northern4000 at 15/01/2025 at 01:13 UTC
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I was going to say the same thing. He was an evil man.
Comment by Ok-Indication-2529 at 12/01/2025 at 20:00 UTC
-5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
No, if you as a man decide to wear a dress, then wearing a dress is now a thing YOU do. Not everything people do has to define or change the definition of their gender.