I need advice regarding a budding friendship with a woman who identifies as non-binary.

horizongirl · 2020-07-03T19:22:16+00:00

What's with all the people on here who seem to be trying to convince me to hate people who identify as non-binary? Are they trolls? Are they people who are just coming here to spew nonsense to make people think that Reddit was right to ban r/GenderCritical?

horizongirl · 2020-07-03T19:20:07+00:00

Are you TRYING to push me away from gender critical feminism? Because that's what it seems like you're doing. Either that or you're trying to get me to hate people who identify as non-binary. I thought that all the stuff about this being a hate group was a lie.

horizongirl · 2020-07-03T12:01:12+00:00

I thought it seemed ridiculous. I was just trying to figure out if that's what Doobeedoo was saying.

horizongirl · 2020-07-03T08:02:28+00:00

Someone in this sub is telling me that there's actually something fundamentally wrong with people who are convinced by the TRAs that they're trans or non-binary, and they're not just normal people who have fallen victim to the patriarchy and the echo chambers created by social media... Is this really what you believe?

horizongirl · 2020-07-03T07:32:27+00:00

So let me get this straight. People who fall for the TRAs' BS and identify as trans or non-binary all have something fundamentally wrong with them, as opposed to just being victims of the patriarchy and the echo chambers created by the way that social media works?

horizongirl · 2020-07-03T07:02:36+00:00

If I understand you correctly, and if what you say is actually what gender critical feminists believe, then it seems that I have drastically misunderstood this whole thing. It sounds like you're saying that there's something wrong with people who don't conform to gender stereotypes. I thought that the whole point of gender critical feminism was that you REJECT the concept of gender, and that a woman can dress and act "masculine" without that making her any less of a woman and a man can dress and act "feminine" without that making him any less of a man because personality and sex aren't connected. I don't see why a woman who has been convinced that she isn't really a woman because her personality doesn't quite fit society's idea of what a woman is necessarily has to have something seriously wrong with her.

horizongirl · 2020-07-03T06:24:07+00:00

FRIENDSHIP, not RELATIONSHIP. And I'm a woman.

horizongirl · 2020-07-03T06:23:16+00:00

I don't plan to bring it up, ever. I just want to be prepared in case she eventually finds out somehow.

horizongirl