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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
Your ad hominem argument is not well received, though I'm sure you didn't come with the intention of actually engaging ideas of people you disagree with either. The strategy here is to bring forward holier than thou disapproval to try to shut down argument rather than engage with it and that's plain dishonest.
In the end, "honest understanding of the academic and scientific basis for the study of the social phenomenon" is based upon the body of knowledge and literature created by humans. It is meant to be critiqued or otherwise we wouldn't ever move forward as a society. The fact that you think it's "nasty" reveals your own biases about how we should engage with ideas rather than about the ideas themselves.
Comment by anti_level at 12/01/2025 at 21:07 UTC
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Oh, please. You began this whole tirade by calling the other poster a 17 year old, condescended to them in every response, and ended by dismissing the notion of nonbinary people as part of a ‘labeling frenzy’. You are not engaging in some serious argument, you are putting the barest veneer of intellectualism on a willful misunderstanding of contemporary critical theory regarding gender. Gender and race are not new concepts, your claim that they are is unscientific; your argument primarily amounts to disliking ‘gender studies departments’; your claim that nonbinary people are adopting ‘new labels’ as a result of dividing people into smaller groups to fight about is, again, ignorance or bigotry. Divided by who? And what ‘people’ are fighting for what reason? You are implying that anyone adopting labels that you personally find invalid are being duped by some unnamed group, you’re not ‘critiquing the body of knowledge’ at all, you have not provided any legitimate basis for your argument, you are using pseudo intellectualism to condescend to people telling you about their personal experiences, and acting like some unconcerned debate artist and drop the ‘ad hominem!’ when confronted.