[Serious] Please convince me gender is binary

[bennyboy]

Male and female are sex, tack, not gender.  I guess I'll end up saying this over and over, but when people are discussing the gender construct and non conformity, they are not making a comment on the presence or absence of penis.

It is the noted and historic trend of shittiness that necessitates societal restructuring to accommodate outliers to our construct, I thought that we were in agreement here?  No one even needs to convince you that your position on the issue is false or uninformed to establish that, right?

Okay, let's take the Navajo genders that popped up when I googled the modern meaning of "gender": "In the case of the Navajo, there were four genders: man, woman, masculine female-bodied nádleeh, and feminine male-bodied nádleeh. Intercourse between two people of different genders, regardless of biological sex, was not stigmatized." (from wikipedia)

In a "masculine female-bodied nádleeh," then what would "masculine" refer to?  It still refers to "manlike."  All these various gender expressions, so far as I can tell, are still expressions of the psychological or behavioral norms associated with human-with-penis and human-with-vagina.

My current perspective is this: gender is binary, gender identity and expression may not be.

Anyway, I want to take a break and consider the philosophical import of Aerosmith:





I'm curious-- would those with an interest in gender identity say that rock musicians with long hair (and sometimes makeup), and which included me when I had long silky locks, were playing with gender identity a little?  Or were we just tapping a more primal masculinity where long-hair is a glorious mane and should be marveled at by admiring bitches and jealous competitors alike?  And then, or course, there was Robert Plant:





If you had to guess, where in the multi-axial rainbow would Robert Plant find a home?