Next week is non-non-binary week
It’s a week! Another week! I didn’t know! I can’t keep up. There are so many of them, along with days and months: it’s impossible to keep up.
Are those the non-binary colors? Yellow white purple black? I didn’t know there were non-binary colors. What do they mean? Why those colors in particular?
Is it true that we don’t know “loads” about what non-binary lives are like? Is there anything to know? Are non-binary lives as such any different from other lives? If so, why? What is it about calling yourself “non-binary” that causes your life to be different from the lives of “binary” people?
Why does anyone need to take any steps to “include” them? What reason is there to think they’re not already “included”?
So many questions, so few answers.
Pride Month taken over by trans isn’t enough?
I’m pretty sure that all of these awarenesses are meant to break down our resistance and eventually accept the inevitable merger of sexes into an amorphous blob.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m not binary, I’m analog and base 10.
Well, pink is for girls and blue is for boys, and if you mix them you get purple. Duh :-P
The black and white against purple look rather ominous, not sure that’s intentional, but at least it’s not offensively ugly. Yellow in that mix, though? Ew. My younger artsy self is offended.
They should just use a magenta flag, really show that colour spectrum who’s boss!
I’m not sure any primary or secondary colors look anything but ominous between black and white. There’s something ineffably aggressive about the combination, like a chromatic threat.
Next week is binary week, so you should buy nary a thing.
I sure hope that those in charge of this week show due respect to Cameron Bess, who made history by being the first pansexual nonbinary furry to be an astronaut! According to an important news article in The Independent “Cameron identifies as pansexual and is proud to represent marginalized communities and hopes their journey can inspire others.” (Though when you read the article you see that the dubious justification of calling him “astronaut” is that his father bought a ticket to Jeff Bezos’s recreational suborbital spaceflight, and he bought a ticket for the son, as well.)
@5: Very nice, that is indeed funny. :-)
The week after that will be Non-Stamp Collectors week, to be followed by Non-Trainspotters week, Non-Kilt wearers week, and finally Non-Vexillologists week.
I have given up drinking wine – I am non winery.
I do not eat in diners – I am non dinery.
I love my pet parrot – I am polyamorous.
During non-binary week, you don’t use the right names for the days of the week. Every day temporally fluid, to be referred to only as “today”, “tomorrow”, “yesterday” etc. Or you can refer to any day by the day-neutral term “Razzday”
(When my nephew was quite young, but old enough to surely know the days of the week, it turned out he didn’t. Once, when one of us was rehearsing them with him for the umpteenth time, he recited “Monday, Tuesday… umm…Razzday?” Nobody knows now if he was being silly or really thought it was a day, but it’s now the family word for “I have no idea what day”)
This today in the BBC: Why I invented Non-binary Day
It’s all performative. Her retelling is all about following gender norms, not a single word that distinguishes her from a woman who acknowledges being a woman yet similarly fails to follow gender norms. That is, no words other than this narcissistic choosing of pronouns and the declaration that she is to be considered “non-binary” rather than “woman”.
It’s all performative and as always it’s all tooth-achingly self-absorbed. NOBODY CARES.
It is supposed to be Disability Awareness Month, in the UK anyway. Who knew?