Ironically, I think we’re starting to hit the point of recreating the substance of the meme.
To me, gender is all performative anyway, so you might as well take the parts that make you feel comfortable/happy and ignore all the rest. What is or isn’t considered “gendered” - especially in the binary - changes almost as often as fashion. What we might consider a very traditionally femme presentation and mannerisms might be considered radical in 10 or 20 years time. In the 80s, fashion in the Middle East looked just like America, and long before that it was culturally considered attractive for women to have a bit of facial hair on the upper lip. Today, we have radical Islam that has set a cultural standard that is on the level of Puritanism. In the 2000s, men created a new term - metrosexual - to describe straight men who like to dress nicely and take a shower because they were afraid of being mistaken for being gay. It’s all so silly.
Expression of the self and your own free will is the most divine act humanity can perform, and labels are to be used to aid in that expression. I see no difference between somebody using a nonbinary gender label for themselves because it makes them feel happy than a trans woman who won’t/can’t transition. People are their own wholly unique beings and any label we make won’t fit the same from one person to the next. Also, we should make more genders just for the simple reason that it pisses off the transphobes. That’s always a win in my book.
“Ironically, I think we’re starting to hit the point of recreating the substance of the meme.”
Ok, but no tongues.
Yes, I think we both understand each other’s point of view now. Perhaps I’m more wary of self a identification because I’ve seen other groups (sports and spiritual) accept self-description and then get turned inside out through it :-/
Ironically, I think we’re starting to hit the point of recreating the substance of the meme.
To me, gender is all performative anyway, so you might as well take the parts that make you feel comfortable/happy and ignore all the rest. What is or isn’t considered “gendered” - especially in the binary - changes almost as often as fashion. What we might consider a very traditionally femme presentation and mannerisms might be considered radical in 10 or 20 years time. In the 80s, fashion in the Middle East looked just like America, and long before that it was culturally considered attractive for women to have a bit of facial hair on the upper lip. Today, we have radical Islam that has set a cultural standard that is on the level of Puritanism. In the 2000s, men created a new term - metrosexual - to describe straight men who like to dress nicely and take a shower because they were afraid of being mistaken for being gay. It’s all so silly.
Expression of the self and your own free will is the most divine act humanity can perform, and labels are to be used to aid in that expression. I see no difference between somebody using a nonbinary gender label for themselves because it makes them feel happy than a trans woman who won’t/can’t transition. People are their own wholly unique beings and any label we make won’t fit the same from one person to the next. Also, we should make more genders just for the simple reason that it pisses off the transphobes. That’s always a win in my book.
“Ironically, I think we’re starting to hit the point of recreating the substance of the meme.”
Ok, but no tongues.
Yes, I think we both understand each other’s point of view now. Perhaps I’m more wary of self a identification because I’ve seen other groups (sports and spiritual) accept self-description and then get turned inside out through it :-/