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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
As long as I (as an individual) am free to choose a role
Because, for centuries, you weren't. And in many places, you still aren't, or are heavily disadvantaged, or heavily pushed into picking one or the other. This "condemnation" is a reaction to centuries of systemic oppression of individuality and expression. If you see vitriol in response to expressing that women are inherently better equipped to care for children or perform domestic labour, it's because you echo a rhetoric that was and still is used to justify forcing women into performing those roles, at the complete expense of their own wellbeing and person. It does not matter how brilliant or capable they were in a field they wanted to pursue, by it the arts or sciences or writing or sports or whatever, they were forced into what is by all accounts domestic slavery, to live and labour to the benefits of their husbands.
The reason this has "worked for centuries", is because this set-up producing maximum meat-and-muscle output. Women are forced to be baby-factories, who produce sons that become soldiers and labourers, and daughters who produce more sons and daughters, all while *also* performing labour. It *works* for the exact same reasons why slavery works, because there is very little fucking difference. You are stripped of personhood: all that remains or matters is your *function*. Do you have any clue as to why people might *detest that*?
There's nothing here!