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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
Well said. I think a lot of people who talk about gender and identity are actually, as you said, 16-20 year olds and uneducated ones at that. They are only capable of regurgitating the discourse around gender without deeply engaging with it so they are incapable of even thinking about the concepts that you are bringing up.
There is a lot to all this gender discourse that are blindly accepted without critical thinking, which is just as bad as all the societal expectations around men and women we have all been conditioned to believe all this time. I'm sure actually educated gender theorists would be aware of the issues you bring up, but a lot of casual people who would argue with you on here are basically just as bad as people who bought into masculine and feminine gender conventions, just from the other side. But there is an alarming amount of similarity in both sides' lack of deep critical engagement with the ideas that they claim to be so fundamental to their sense of self.
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