ppl w nonbinary genders are not all just “between” male and female. gender isn’t a male/female zero-sum game pls stop
this took me a while to unlearn, until someone basically said “look, colors are a spectrum. if you assign pink to women and blue to men, that doesn’t make every other color a variation of purple”
^potentially helpful way to conceptualize this
I remember one tumblr post that went around ages ago that suggested thinking of gender less like this
and more like this.
Which honestly helped me understand this concept more than anything else when I first started to explore ideas of gender and sexuality
Also also!!! There’s a saturation setting too!!!
So you can have much much gender, or varying amounts of gender, or no gender at all!!
how many stories do we need to see about cops being too scared to engage an active shooter when they are otherwise trigger happy blowing the heads off of peoples’ corgis point blank range because it got a little too yappy before we realize cops in this country cannot be trusted to carry firearms on them at all times
