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I'm not sure i'm reading you correctly but would like to understand more about why you don't see it as a spectrum. Do you see it as specific categories? if so, how many? Or is it that you are interpreting spectrum as being linear? it can be multidimensional, i think just as sexuality is, but i'd still see sexuality as a spectrum. Perhaps kaleidoscope is better? Either way, i think the reason some people feel uncomfortable about new labels is they don't really want labels at all so it's just more boxes. personally if it makes people feel understood by having a box that's fine by me. Just don't really want anyone to put me in one! :)
Comment by Salty_Map_9085 at 15/01/2025 at 16:05 UTC
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Yeah I’m basically saying gender is multifactorial, I generally interpret the idea of a spectrum and being in between two things on a spectrum to mean that we are talking about a linear trait.
I see gender as it currently exists in US society to be one of two general groupings of traits, though this has changed to an extent in modern time.
I definitely understand not wanting to be grouped, I think that’s what an ideal society looks like, but I get annoyed with people using that against like trans or nb people (which you are not doing), who are trying to live as best they can in *real* society.