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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
I get that and it's not easy to navigate at all. But it would be cool if the message was more, "you don't need a 'gender' to be yourself", more than "you get to pick any gender! And make up any extra ones you want!" like how about you dissociate your identity from gender and how about we start implementing the idea, for our future generations, that gender is history, it was a thing back when we were telling men and women that they have to act differently, but modern society grew past that. So now you're a biological male or female and you are free to have any romantic life with any person you wish without any weird gender-focused implications or dynamic
Comment by Agreeable_Tennis_482 at 13/01/2025 at 11:38 UTC
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Exactly, I feel like nonbinary and such identities are a way to conform to conservative views on gender and not rock the boat as much. Imagine if people just presented however they wanted and if they were asked by bigots about their identity they just said their biological sex? That would go much further to breaking stereotypes about what a man and a woman has to act like instead of thinking that if you act different YOU are the problem and need to relabel yourself to fit in.
Comment by meangingersnap at 13/01/2025 at 13:17 UTC
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Not being any gender sounds pretty nonbinary