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[–]Complicated-Spirit 48 insightful - 3 fun48 insightful - 2 fun49 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Nine times out of ten, it’s “I’m not like other girls” for girls/women and “I may be bisexual and occasionally cry” for boys/men.

It’s such a rigid adherence to socially-constructed gender roles that they cannot conceive of “man” or “woman” outside of a predetermined, predefined, strict stereotype. Any deviation from those “norms”, and they have to be something beyond man or woman. For kids, I think it’s also a way of reassuring oneself that one really is special and unique. A girl can see another girl in a flannel shirt, feel a strike of fear that she is not the only one who wears them, and then tell herself that while the other girl is still a girl, she herself is “non-binary”.