Hahahahahahahaha classic – she’s nonbinereeeee yet somehow she still ends up on the cover of Harpers Bazaar in her underwear looking passive and vacant. Unshaved armpits=exciting thrilling unusual original rebelliousish gender theater.
How dare you doubt the legitimacy of non-binary as an identity slash entire personality. Can’t you see the short haircut??
I marvel that the theys don’t see the implications here. If marginally pushing back against the female stereotypes = not a woman, then being a woman – or perhaps, being a woman correctly – necessarily requires conformity to the stereotypes.
Holms, that’s exactly it. Feminism fought against the stereotypes; they are just telling us to identify out of them. You can’t really be a woman unless you are stereotyped, so the bulk of women must be non-binary. I’ve never known any woman who fit all the stereotypes. If we all declare ourselves non-binary, would they begin to see the ridiculousness? No, they’d probably have us investigated/arrested for transphobia, for mocking them.
Fifty years ago, Patti Smith wore a man’s suit for the cover of one album; she showed armpit hair on the cover of another. She’s never claimed to be anything but what she is: a woman.
LM, over the years I’ve know a few women who didn’t remove or trim body hair because they just didn’t want to. They quite rightly maintained that they shouldn’t have to do so just to please men and societal expectations of sex stereotyping. Quite right too. I really just can’t get in the heads of all these people who are per formatively going on about breaking stereotypes, when they’re the goddamn ones making those stereotypes the frame of reference.
I really just can’t get in the heads of all these people who are performatively going on about breaking stereotypes, when they’re the goddamn ones making those stereotypes the frame of reference
Making the stereotypes their frame of reference — that’s so well said, Rob.
But if she’s non-binary, why would she wear men’s underwear? Man is part of the binary, after all. Why do so many NBs take the stereotypes of the opposite sex? That’s about as binary as it gets! Wow. Trying to understand this could make your head hurt, couldn’t it?
iknklast, I think “being female” is on one side of the scale, so the men’s underwear has to go on the “masculine” side, causing the scales to balance perfectly and the little arrow to point exaclty at “nonbinary”. It’s very sciency.
How dare you doubt the legitimacy of non-binary as an identity slash entire personality. Can’t you see the short haircut??
I marvel that the theys don’t see the implications here. If marginally pushing back against the female stereotypes = not a woman, then being a woman – or perhaps, being a woman correctly – necessarily requires conformity to the stereotypes.
She’s not “writing her own script”, she’s writing ours, trying to put lies in our mouths.
No thank you.
Holms, that’s exactly it. Feminism fought against the stereotypes; they are just telling us to identify out of them. You can’t really be a woman unless you are stereotyped, so the bulk of women must be non-binary. I’ve never known any woman who fit all the stereotypes. If we all declare ourselves non-binary, would they begin to see the ridiculousness? No, they’d probably have us investigated/arrested for transphobia, for mocking them.
Looks like a young wooman to me.
I’m debating whether to use this comeback:
Person: I’m nonbinary.
Me: Me too! There’s only one of me!
Mike B wins the internet today!
Fifty years ago, Patti Smith wore a man’s suit for the cover of one album; she showed armpit hair on the cover of another. She’s never claimed to be anything but what she is: a woman.
LM, over the years I’ve know a few women who didn’t remove or trim body hair because they just didn’t want to. They quite rightly maintained that they shouldn’t have to do so just to please men and societal expectations of sex stereotyping. Quite right too. I really just can’t get in the heads of all these people who are per formatively going on about breaking stereotypes, when they’re the goddamn ones making those stereotypes the frame of reference.
Making the stereotypes their frame of reference — that’s so well said, Rob.
But…but…but…she’s wearing men’s underwear!
But if she’s non-binary, why would she wear men’s underwear? Man is part of the binary, after all. Why do so many NBs take the stereotypes of the opposite sex? That’s about as binary as it gets! Wow. Trying to understand this could make your head hurt, couldn’t it?
iknklast, I think “being female” is on one side of the scale, so the men’s underwear has to go on the “masculine” side, causing the scales to balance perfectly and the little arrow to point exaclty at “nonbinary”. It’s very sciency.
“Gender theater”
I like.