[Serious] Please convince me gender is binary

[bennyboy]

Not all people are creeped out by 'other'.

Everyone is 'other' to someone.

I think all people ARE creeped out by "other."  But maybe not the same other.  The idea of exposure on the internet is to make people familiar with gay, trans or whatever, and then people won't really see them as "other," but as a subgroup of "us."

Speaking as a child of the 70s and 80s, and with parents who knew very many gay men (well, maybe half a dozen, but that was a big % of their real friendship pool), I saw that automatic "ick" factor turn into beatings-- and it was pretty obviously from a real visceral dislike or mistrust.  But I don't think that many people feel that way any more.