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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
Wouldn’t it be better to break down these gender stereotypes so women and men everywhere can have more freedom to express themselves? Instead of creating a new gender and leaving women and men behind in their evermore constricting boxes?
By choosing to identify as non-binary; you’re spreading the message that you can’t be a woman who has short hair, or a man who wears a dress. If you don’t fit in these gender stereotypes, you must be non-binary. This is not progress, it reenforces gender stereotypes.
Rebels challenge social norms, not create new labels to hide behind.
Comment by snatch_tovarish at 14/01/2025 at 02:16 UTC
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I promise you that there is no non-binary person who says you can't be a woman with short hair or a man in a dress. Being non-binary is also not a new gender, the point of it is that it is not gendered -- more or less exactly the thing that you're arguing for to disparage non-binary people.
In their own personal lives, they are attempting to break down those boxes even further than you're going. If all of the walls that define gender are broken down, there is no longer a binary. AKA non-binary.
Quick edit: again, to reiterate from my previous post, non-binary people are not doing this as a philosophy or a political movement. They're doing it to live right with themselves. I doubt many of them care about men in dresses or women with short hair, unless they think they're cute ;)