Happy non-binary day! How internet communities are validating the fragile egos of adolescents

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[–]materialrealityplz 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

God I fucking hate 'non-binary' shit. Thanks to them for helping us get called 'uterus-havers' and reinforcing old stereotypes by identifying out of being a women. Too special to be a woman, huh? :P Could have been courageous and cool and helped break what society expects of women, but nah. Too self-interested, too narcissistic, gotta be special~ Pretend they aren't male or female (dumb).

Also, a lot of them dress in stuff that is typically for the opposite sex, like guys in dresses/skirts. So basically it's still very binary. They aren't dressing like some crazy alien-like thing, or crazy fashion or some totally insane stuff, just... normal stuff made by huge corporations you can buy in a mall.

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

That uterus-haver shit really annoys me. So does "people" needing abortions. The female body is erased. And it all sounds so Victorian, too. Like if we pretend there is no special reason why some people bleed once a month and others don't, then nobody will figure out that biological sex exists.

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Narcissism is not a third sex

I died.

[–]sisterinsomnia 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When some female person tells me that they are nonbinary what I actually hear is this: That person regards me, a woman not bothering to transition out of the sex class (as that is not possible without surgery and hormones), a walking caricature of the most sexist stereotypes about women!

And then I think of how we are going back to the 1950s gender roles but this time both the extreme right and the extreme left agree on those roles. The difference is that the former won't allow moving from one cage to the other but the latter does, and the latter also allows special non-sexist people to be nonbinary. But for the vast masses the changes are retrogressive bullshit.

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

I've always tended to use "person" or "they" as a general way of talking about people, even sexed ones. But the perky little memes on my Facebook timeline telling me how to be inclusive on NB day have made me so pissed off. It's patronising bullshit and we can use neutral terms without it having to be all about some new special identity we must cater to.