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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
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 ;)
Comment by Mu5hroomHead at 14/01/2025 at 10:06 UTC
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Thanks for your contribution. I think I’m starting to lean towards abolishing gender. I don’t see any use for gender (other than determining pronouns). I don’t even understand why NB people are so uncomfortable with pronouns either. I wouldn’t care being called he/him, I’d be confused but whatever. In my native language, there is no she/he, only they.
I also don’t have an innate sense of gender that I see mentioned in other comments. And others have commented the same. I am not my gender. I do what I want, when I want, which sometimes aligns with my gender stereotypes/role, and sometimes doesn’t. And people try to correct me, all the time, which is a challenge everyday as a cis-woman. I ask them why can’t I do that? Why do I have to be polite and demure? If I don’t push back on these stereotypes, then I become a slave society.
For the edit, whether it’s meant to be political or not, unfortunately it has become that. Also, can you give me examples of what walls define gender?
What do you think about abolishing gender altogether? Pronouns will represent your sex. If you’re trans with sex-affirming surgery, you would be your new sex. Example, a trans woman will be she/her. Nobody needs to know whether you’re a cis-woman or trans woman besides your doctor and your partner.