On International Non-Binary People’s Day, Liberal Democrats are proud to stand with and celebrate non-binary people in the UK and all around the world.
We will keep fighting until we can finally build a society where everyone is free to be who they are. pic.twitter.com/SilFn7fLsw
Twiliter, I kind of disagree. After all, who amongst us is purely binary? I’d argue that almost everybody’s non-binary in the sense that we have aspects of our behaviour or preferences that code or lean toward coding for the ‘other’ sex. It is after all a large part of what makes declaring oneself nb, and therefore special, so infuriatingly stupid. Everybody is nb to some extent and in some way – which means its normal, not special.
What I was getting at, is that they already have the freedoms they appeal for (in the societies where this is happening). What they really want is special treatment. They complain about being othered, when it’s they who are doing the othering.
*I’m using ‘they’ in the banal and non-special plural form here (just to clarify).
What if “who I am” is someone who needs to throw water balloons at the police without consequences? Are these people working towards a perfect society that accommodates _my_ need?
I’m not non-binary – you are, by default. Which is to say I refuse to impose gendered norms on others. I don’t know where I got the idea but I think there used to be some sort of social/political movement that thought along similar lines.
Meaning who they are not, and forcing others to go along with it. Free, yeah right.
Maria MacLachlan has a good video on YouTube about it today. https://youtu.be/PjRkeAHNUiY?si=N3UR8n1XunLg_Cmr
I want to steal one of the comments on that video:
Non-brainery Day.
Isn’t that every day? Between Trump, RFK Jr, Jolyon, and Chase Strangio, there are damned few brave enough to tell the truth.
Twiliter, I kind of disagree. After all, who amongst us is purely binary? I’d argue that almost everybody’s non-binary in the sense that we have aspects of our behaviour or preferences that code or lean toward coding for the ‘other’ sex. It is after all a large part of what makes declaring oneself nb, and therefore special, so infuriatingly stupid. Everybody is nb to some extent and in some way – which means its normal, not special.
And so the quest for the Perfectly Binary Person begins.
What I was getting at, is that they already have the freedoms they appeal for (in the societies where this is happening). What they really want is special treatment. They complain about being othered, when it’s they who are doing the othering.
*I’m using ‘they’ in the banal and non-special plural form here (just to clarify).
What if “who I am” is someone who needs to throw water balloons at the police without consequences? Are these people working towards a perfect society that accommodates _my_ need?
I’m not non-binary – you are, by default. Which is to say I refuse to impose gendered norms on others. I don’t know where I got the idea but I think there used to be some sort of social/political movement that thought along similar lines.