Humans really like the concept of “one or the other”.
I’ve never really thought about it on a spectrum larger than gender since thats most of the talk I see surrounding binary. While I am cis, there’s still so many not as major things that humans still expect you to like one or the other, even if there’s such a broad scape of different options.
Do you like sweet or sour
Do you like hot or cold?
Do you prefer cats or dogs?
Why can’t we instead ask stuff like
“What’s your favourite flavour?”
“What’s your favourite type of weather?”
“What’s your favourite animal”
It’s like everyone expects people to be generic. So boring!
i agree. and w gender - i'm nonbinary. biologically, i'm female, so that's what i'll put on medical stuff, but when filling out job applications, i'd like to put nonbinary bc that's what i
am. but most places don't have that option, and that section is unskippable for some reason? (and what abt other ppl, who might be genderfluid or bigender or trans? what do they put? i don't understand why that even needs to be a question for a job, anyway, other than them wanting to know if this employee might mess things up for them and get pregnant)
and even when there is an option for nonbinary, the ppl at the individual stores don't pay attention or care, meaning i'm getting called she/her for hours on end, multiple days a week. and yeah, i could ask them to call me they/them, but that's potentially dangerous. in the us, this past year was one of the most dangerous on record for trans ppl, w more assaults' and murders and r-words. so it's like, what do i do? do i suck it up and be constantly misgendered (and for the cis ppl, being misgendered is...awful. it's like being slapped in the face over and over again), or speak up and potentially put myself in danger?
sorry for ranting, this has just been on my mind and your post got me thinking again