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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
I appreciate the comment but I’ll be completely honest: I’m not closer to understanding what you mean than before your comment. I’m a man, but I don’t have some internal sense of gender. I just am what I am. Never once in my life have I had a *feeling* of “being a man”. In fact, I don’t even know what that would mean. What do you imagine that feels like?
Now, I do understand what “being a man” means in the biological or social context, but that’s not what we are talking about here.
Comment by ThrowMeAwayLikeGarbo at 13/01/2025 at 21:22 UTC
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Feelings, emotions, gender identity, sense of self, consciousness, etc all exist in the brain. Maybe 'feel' is the wrong word to convey it, since feelings are usually perceived as fleeting bodily sensations (tired, angry, anxious, etc). The 'feeling' ***is*** "I am what I am." Non-binary is just where that feeling of I Am What I Am settles on.
I do put a lot of weight into biology, just on a different level than what most people say when they use that word. People frequently forget that biology includes that weird, overly complicated sack of neurons in your head. Some of Robert Sapolsky's old public lecture videos talk about the neurological differences between genders that are consistent regardless of birth sex.