Surely these replies are satire....right?
Today Sonic Fox announced on their Twitter that they are identifying as Non-binary from now on: I'm really happy for them! Now I stan harder than before lol
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Meh. I don't mind it. It's an interesting thought experiment at worst.
Can anyone realistically identify as anything?
Sometimes I have to work late or on weekends and on the way home I end up going past this group of emo/goth kids who congregate near the office.
The state of some of these little fuckers is hilarious and some of the shit you hear them say/see them do would just make you cringe yourself to an early grave.
Then I remember when I was younger that I used to make horrendous fashion choices and act like an annoying little idiot just to get attention.
You can tell from the replies on the thread that to some extent there is an incentive and maybe even peer pressure for someone like Sonic Fox to "come out" as non-binary. I am guessing that in 2019 coming out as gay probably doesn't really cut it anymore.
He even kind of admits it himself by saying he just called himself "gay" for "simplicity purposes". Right but if you are a dude and you are into dudes and you are only getting it on with dudes then that's OK to just say you are gay. Seems like no problem.
Unless you've now realized that nobody actually cares so you need something that's a bit more of a conversation piece. "So I'm like into men and I like sleep with men and like I am a man but I feel like calling myself gay is just sooooooooo simplistic."
So don't use "he" when talking about Sonic Fox. Use "them" instead because... reasons? I'll call you whatever I want, you little cunt.
Even the phrase "non-binary man" kind of seems like a contradiction.
So he's a man? Yes.
Definitely not a woman? That's correct.
But he's also kind of not a man? I think so yes.
I wonder if, for young lads, there is such an overwhelming negative connotation and baggage that comes with words like "man" and "male" etc that they just feel like denying that allows them to relieve some kind of guilt and/or pressure?
Not talking about legit trans people here since they have always existed and the idea of transitioning still leans heavily on the idea of binary gender. Not many people saying "I am only going to transition 33% of the way then live as non-binary". Most trans people seem to be actively trying to "pass" as the other gender.
No-binary always feels like a "get out clause" for taking on the baggage that comes with being a man. I don't mean in that "I am a real man no" kind of way but in a way to avoid things like "men need to take responsibility for rape culture". Well, I am non-binary now so it's not my problem. Sort yourselves out "Men" cos I am not one of you any more!
It also kind of feels like "overthinking" things. Like I am definitely a dude. I understand that homo sapiens are mammals and that this generally means one is either male or female. I understand that many hundreds of thousands of years of development have led us to the point now where socially males have a distinctive set of characteristics and females have their own distinctive set. I could look at tens of thousands of people and correctly identify their biological sex with probably in the region of 99% accuracy. Near 100% accuracy if they were naked.
I understand that some people look at the opposite gender and feel a very very strong identification with that gender to the point where it is necessary to "transition" to maintain physical and mental well being. I understand that this is often a very arduous and challenging path to go down.
Stuff like this "I am coming out as a non binary man" stuff though just feels like people who are just trying SO hard to be special or different that they have to break every little aspect of themselves down into abstract, and therefor infinitely questionable, chunks they they can then pore over.
You know I am a mammalian, primate of the homo sapiens species and under that category I am what one would call male but what does that even mean? Must I be defined by my categorization? Maybe I am just made of stardust?
Is there scope to identify as non existent? If I fall in the forest but no one is around to hear, do I make a sound?
What does it even mean to be "real" or to be "human"?
It's the kind of thing he'll look back on and think "haha that was dumb".
