Is this non-binary stuff the future?

It's a fad. Just like suicide clusters.

It's dumb. You're either a man with a penis or a woman with a vagina, it's biological. Just be yourself and don't worry about the gender roles associated with your sex.

That's a boy.

It's a fad by bored self-absorbed gay or "bi" guys who want attention and don't want to be anything so common as "gay". They're peacocks. I really wish they could all be deported to a third world country where they have bigger problems than the "struggle for acceptance" because they think wearing lipstick and dresses is a good way to stand out and at the same time, claim victim and intersectionality points.

They are Gender Tourists and not in it for the long haul.

Fake and straight.

It's a fad that needs to die in a fucking grease fire.

These people can't accept reality, life is too tough for them, poor things are exhausted by all that oppression. So "they" prefer to live in their little fantasy world so "they" can feel special in it, like mommy said when "they" were five.

Generation of sissies.

You reject the binary only by believing in it.

It's just the new way for the current young people to confuse and anger the older people around them. Some little part of it will remain in the culture, and that's good for those who need it, and the rest will fade away like hula hoops and pet rocks.

All the binary shit will disperse once they hit adulthood and the get married with the opposite sex and spew out their spawn and become rabid homophobic republicans, happened with the hippies and their free live bullshit, it'll happen with them.

*Free love

R10 Is that Nico Tortorella's future?

I don’t judge because I can’t imagine ever feeling this way. Why would anyone choose to? Have this many people been this alienated from their sex throughout history...that is crazy to contemplate. Just glad it’s not my struggle.

[quote]Why would anyone choose to?

Attention.

Man buns! Man buns started this shit.

Yes! Fastened into place with a pair of smart chopsticks. Absolutely!

R13 because the truth is that most people are boring, average and unremarkable, that’s why. What is a person desperate for attention to do when they don’t possess talent, creativity, imagination, a sense of humor or super intelligence?? Whatever works, I guess - usually glom on to whatever is happening in the zeitgeist since they have no original ideas of their own.

Somebody's sending me flowers

Why didn't they interview me? I have a book out!

As a gay man it has the strange effect of making me feel more masculine. All my life I've looked like a lesbian, and I have a high tenor voice. But next to people with beards + breasts or FTMs- I'm a stud!

One can only hope it's just a fad. It's so annoying and confusing.

As its often expressed? Fad.

As a principle that can grow in popularity? Future.

I do 'look forward' to their internal resistance (I'm Millennial and already starting to see this) crumble away as they marry the opposite sex, revert to gendered stereotypes, and follow gendered expectations, but I think the sticking power is in the simple message of 'you don't have to be X', which others will successfully and more naturally internalize and more casually encourage. Some feel truly freer being non-binary like indeed the poster earlier brought up the hippies, but I (sadly to be honest) expect a large section to get hugely conservative about future progressive trends and not see the irony, like what happened with so many hippies.

One thing going on, imo, with Gen Y-Z is that 'self-serious' matters. Progressive activists are self-serious. And Gen Z teens and their angst are self-serious about it all. This can be often fine, and it encourages at least trying to be an authentic human, but I also imagine that decades down the line it'll create generational standards that are simply serious and ironically conservative in the face of the huge leaps in technology, politics, and culture further down this century. I anticipate my few non-binary friends to get awfully reactionary on average, except for the dedicated weirdos (with love; each of those are actually so kind).

And a very USian fad. Not seen so much in other parts of the world.