#it can kinda feel like a pronounced infantilization especially compared to how bold and confident nonbinary is as a word

[friend-dogor]

this post has been made a thousand times but nonbinary is not like. A Third Thing that Any sweeping generalization can be made about. its a vast expanse not even so much within an umbrella category as it is a rejection of another category.

i find attempts to generalize nb experience to be goofy at best but generally fundamentally misunderstanding what theyre talking about

#like. its a community which goes by a negative adjective! largely many of us are comfortable with that descriptor too #you cannot sweep a broad brush over it all and say ''all nb people are...'' in Any situation without disrespecting individuals identities #when we need positive-adjective labels for our identity we have them #bigender. gender fluid. agender. queer as a gender label. demi-girl/boy. neutrois. theres an infinity of positive labels #but non-binary in its name is a rejection! a negetive adjective which is incredibly useful #i think it has teeth honestly. its a label with a bite to it #i wonder if thats part of why labels like enby are often extremely controversial #it can kinda feel like a pronounced infantilization especially compared to how bold and confident nonbinary is as a word