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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
It's up to each individual to decide how THEY want to participate within the social construct, what rules they want to break and be willing to accept the consequences.
Change happens because of Thought Leaders
-some thought leaders will lose their jobs
-some will go to jail
-some will gain a following and over time change the norms by influencing others. so will literally change what it means to be a man or woman.
comparing a dollar to complex social constructs doesn't work.
Comment by Old_Squash5250 at 13/01/2025 at 13:20 UTC*
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-some will gain a following and over time change the norms by influencing others. so will literally change what it means to be a man or woman.
You're making my point for me. My point was that the criteria for belonging to a socially constructed group like a particular gender are set by *society.* So yes, if as a society, we decided to change what it meant to be a man or woman, then it would eventually mean something different. That doesn't undermine, and in fact, *supports* my point that it is not up to each individual what it means to be a man or woman (for example). Everyone seems to have interpreted me as making a normative claim. I was literally just explaining how social constructs work lol.
Comment by ta0029271 at 14/01/2025 at 09:12 UTC
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It doesn't work for gender though, because someone could fulfil all of the social constructs of "man" but if she didn't WANT to be called a man then even the gender borg wouldn't call her one. Also, if someone wanted to be called a man but fulfilled no societal constructs of "man" then they would still call her one. It's all about what the person wants, the "gender" thing is a distraction.
Comment by thedorknightreturns at 14/01/2025 at 15:55 UTC
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Most people use that as pronoun to safe normalize , yeah you dont have to always present as that gende. Like most enbies still go by a he or she, and a thrm is either room to explore, a signal, whatever, its not enforcing genders, it gives room to explore it outside the very real expectation at worst and it can let transpeople give room sometimes to safe explore.
The male female stuff is real and yeah you think a dude wearing a dress is accepted? Stereotypes hold very strong.especially in dudes.
Comment by Famous-Ad-9467 at 15/01/2025 at 09:22 UTC
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And it's up to others how they are going to respond to that.
Comment by doobydubious at 14/01/2025 at 16:55 UTC
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This doesn't make any sense. People clearly treaty LGBT people differently because of their inadherence to clearly defined gender roles. Also, everything you said about thought leaders applies to people who promote the dollar?