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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
We simply cannot know if your hypothetical genderless world would play out that way. I get that you want to believe that and I think if it did it would be better than what we have now. Still, I'm not aware of any societies in history that have not had gender or chosen to discard it outright. Maybe there will be one someday. The anarchists and democratic confederalists are closer than anyone else at equality rn that I'm aware of.
Still, it's pretty clear to me that gender is a word we made up and (re)define together to be of some utility to us. In this case we use it to describe clusters of varying internal experiences: things that exist in the real world inside of people. As far as anyone can tell these internal experiences are not themselves entirely a social construct in the sense that if gender in society was not there to reinforce them they would not simply cease to exist. We probably disagree on that and that's okay but maybe that at least clarifies the specific point of contention.
Are you aware of any research that supports the idea people would not invent gender? Genuinely asking because I for sure would read it.
There's nothing here!