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 Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:33 pm
I really don't get why we're seen as special snowflakes. It doesn't seem anything more special than Trans people who are on opposite ends of the spectrum from their gender given at birth.
Why do you all think this is?
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 6:08 pm
Alfie Wolfington III I really don't get why we're seen as special snowflakes. It doesn't seem anything more special than Trans people who are on opposite ends of the spectrum from their gender given at birth. Why do you all think this is? Honestly, I think the unfortunate reasoning most people take with it is because they still think being non-binary is "imaginary" and just a way to seek specialty. Which...as an nb person just makes no sense at all to me. It really bums me out and makes me nervous sometimes to say I'm nonbinary for that very reason. I feel like for many people who don't experience it or feel like there's solely female/male in every sense to be "neither" just makes no sense to them I suppose. I've even been told I "have to choose one or the other". It's really quite ignorant and sad.
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 10:14 pm
sigishooter Alfie Wolfington III I really don't get why we're seen as special snowflakes. It doesn't seem anything more special than Trans people who are on opposite ends of the spectrum from their gender given at birth. Why do you all think this is? Honestly, I think the unfortunate reasoning most people take with it is because they still think being non-binary is "imaginary" and just a way to seek specialty. Which...as an nb person just makes no sense at all to me. It really bums me out and makes me nervous sometimes to say I'm nonbinary for that very reason. I feel like for many people who don't experience it or feel like there's solely female/male in every sense to be "neither" just makes no sense to them I suppose. I've even been told I "have to choose one or the other". It's really quite ignorant and sad. Same with me. At first I didn't think much about it then I heard all the "nb are special snowflakes" "fake" and I've found myself self-conscious about saying I'm non-binary and pressured into a strictly masculine persona just to be taken seriously even then people don't take it seriously, cuz "there's only two genders" It's frustrating.
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 12:33 am
I know this is a tad bit old, but, yeah I get that. It is extremely irritating when someone else doesn't seem to understand something that is different from the norm. I wish I could change my legal name on my Facebook account, because someone decided to bring my gender into the conversation and blame it on me (mature, I know). If I change it to something more genderless, they would be confused.
I hate Facebook for that very reason. I'm thinking about changing my name irl so people don't read me as female assigned at birth. I like to be ambiguous with my gender presentation. No matter what I do, though, I'm sure people will still try to find an excuse to insult me.
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:45 am
It is also interesting to note, that on a grand scale of the spectrum NB is just seen as an umbrella term for anyone that doesn't fit the binary spectrum norms
This means that Trans, genderfluid, third gender, bigender, and others also qualify as NB. Meaning also that your statement about it being the same as trans being differing from the spectrum they were born is accurate, moreso than you think.
So to say that just being NB is a special snowflake, you have to realise that to qualify as NB you to differ from the norm anyways.
So technically, yes, this statement is in fact true...to a point.
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