#ive never heard a nb person saying they're a third category i think we just think of ourselves as being. beyond that | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

saviourkingslut · 1 year

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SICK of academics saying shit like "non-binary is a step backwards people are just creating a third gender category while we should be working towards eradicating the differences and inequalities between men and women entirely" that is LITERALLY what we're doing here. the eradication of gender as a social construct isn't going to happen in a day and it's not going to happen without people taking action and saying "gender is fluid and my expression is whatever i want it to be, im purposefully disregarding the binary and challenging traditional beliefs to change people's ways of thinking abt gender". we are in the trenches and y'all refuse to see it. "most people don't feel fully man or woman that'd make us all non-binary" yes that's the point the binary doesn't exist and we're actively trying to deconstruct it. and we're going to keep being non-binary until the work is done

#idk man i always feel like bc most of these people are 60+ they're kind of. out of touch with young vibrant queer communities #and the cultures and mindsets and the way concepts are taken up and articulated and given a new shape #ive never heard a nb person saying they're a third category i think we just think of ourselves as being. beyond that #and of course we mix and match traditionally 'male' and 'female' things. that's the building blocks we have #but by doing so we're trying to make them lose the 'inherent' gendered quality.#also is calling it a third category not a sign you are still thinking in the binary. bc you can't conceive of gender as wholly fluid #idk i can't prove it but i feel like it's mostly old school feminists who i see saying this stuff #not saying feminism is bad ofc. but like. they have a certain way of thinking rooted in their own bg and experience #i feel like they tend to cast non-binarism as a force working against feminist movements. WHILE IT'S NOT.#curry rambles

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