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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
Before I answer, I don’t mean to offend anyone. But I will try anyways.
In my (cisgender male) opinion there’s the social / cultural aspect of it and then there’s the physical aspect of it. Like for example, I am a male who is very comfortable being a male. I have some stereotypically masculine aspects but also i have some aspects that have been traditionally considered more linked to women - I like to cook, I clean the house, many of my friends are female, I enjoy a spa day, I use pink a lot in my decor, etc.
But while those are traditionally feminine things, they don’t make me “feel feminine.” I am still 100% male, I do not feel female in the slightest even if I am happy doing things that are not seen as stereotypically masculine. It’s not even really the fact that I have a male body that makes me feel male, I am just male… that’s all there is to it really.
Now if I woke up one day and I saw a woman in the mirror, I would freak out and flip my shit. I would experience significant discomfort not because I need to conform to the gender roles of a woman, but rather because now I am still a man in my head but I am in a woman’s body. It is not who I am.
This is the effect I imagine people who are born with gender dysphoria feel every day. Like I’m sure we can make jokes that we might enjoy trying out not being our own sex, but the reality of having to deal with it all the time sounds like hell.
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