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Title: We’re all a bit non-binary inside. So why do we segregate by gender?
Post by: Ms Grace on November 01, 2015, 02:41:40 AM
Post by: Ms Grace on November 01, 2015, 02:41:40 AM
We're all a bit non-binary inside. So why do we segregate by gender?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/29/binary-gender-feminism-transgender-womens-award
By Jack Munroe/ The Guardian
"Awkward timing at the Woman of the Future awards with Jack Monroe surprised with a prize", read the diary in Wednesday's London Evening Standard. "The problem? Last week Jack came out as transgender ..." But my award wasn't just awkward for the writer. I can normally tell the trolls from the satire and the genuinely ignorant, but after scrolling through 24 hours of social media screeching about how I "stole an award from a real woman", I'm not so sure: there seemed to be a consensus among the discontented that I shouldn't have accepted it.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/29/binary-gender-feminism-transgender-womens-award
By Jack Munroe/ The Guardian
"Awkward timing at the Woman of the Future awards with Jack Monroe surprised with a prize", read the diary in Wednesday's London Evening Standard. "The problem? Last week Jack came out as transgender ..." But my award wasn't just awkward for the writer. I can normally tell the trolls from the satire and the genuinely ignorant, but after scrolling through 24 hours of social media screeching about how I "stole an award from a real woman", I'm not so sure: there seemed to be a consensus among the discontented that I shouldn't have accepted it.
Title: Re: We’re all a bit non-binary inside. So why do we segregate by gender?
Post by: Jera on November 01, 2015, 03:06:10 AM
Post by: Jera on November 01, 2015, 03:06:10 AM
My personal opinion is that it deals with the patriarchy, and thus the feeling of oppression. Cis views of the binary do seem to involve trans* exploiting, rather than defining, that binary.
A comment I've heard elsewhere in some circles with Jenner being named the "woman of the year" is that it makes many ciswomen feel like men are defined as better women than women.
Not as validation of us, but as oppression of them. And people are so very interested in feeling oppressed.
A comment I've heard elsewhere in some circles with Jenner being named the "woman of the year" is that it makes many ciswomen feel like men are defined as better women than women.
Not as validation of us, but as oppression of them. And people are so very interested in feeling oppressed.
Title: Re: We’re all a bit non-binary inside. So why do we segregate by gender?
Post by: suzifrommd on November 01, 2015, 04:05:30 AM
Post by: suzifrommd on November 01, 2015, 04:05:30 AM
I agree with the conclusion, but reject the premise.
Yes, I don't see a reason to segregate awards by gender.
However, I take strong offense to "We're all a bit non-binary inside."
It's an incredibly invalidating statement to people who really are non-binary and who are struggling with the fact that their feelings about their gender are quite obviously different from what nearly everyone else describes.
No. We are NOT all a bit non-binary inside.
Yes, I don't see a reason to segregate awards by gender.
However, I take strong offense to "We're all a bit non-binary inside."
It's an incredibly invalidating statement to people who really are non-binary and who are struggling with the fact that their feelings about their gender are quite obviously different from what nearly everyone else describes.
No. We are NOT all a bit non-binary inside.
Title: Re: We’re all a bit non-binary inside. So why do we segregate by gender?
Post by: Ms Grace on November 01, 2015, 04:21:27 AM
Post by: Ms Grace on November 01, 2015, 04:21:27 AM
Yeah, I'd agree Suzi. And also, for the vast majority of people who might be a "bit non-binary" the "bit" is very negligible... that's why we call them cis gender!!