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[–]kwallio 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I will preface this by saying that I don't know any nb people irl, so I haven't experience the attention seeking behavior that you are talking about. I really feel bad for the youth of today, they are coming of age in a truly bizarre time. I can't really judge someone for attempting to escape the misogyny thats happening now (I was in high school 1990-1993, when I was in college we had grunge and the riot girls etc, there's nothing like that now). It does seem very much "I'm not like other girls" and who knows, I might have fallen for it when I was a teenager. I wasn't very attractive, could not really conform very well to gender norms, also never wanted children, had a lot of sterotypically male hobbies, etc. I was tho under the thumb of my militantly christian and conformist mom so any gender bending activity would have earned me a spot at a reform school, so I toed the line. Not sure where I'm going with this, I think 90% of people who are doing the nb thing are just playing with their identity like young people do and will move past it eventually.