(June 11, 2021 at 3:51 am)Foxaire Wrote: Be forewarned that the opinions expressed below may offend you
The definition of Nonbinary is as follows:
Quote:Non-binary (also spelled nonbinary) or genderqueer is an umbrella term for gender identities that are neither male nor female—identities that are outside the gender binary.
From a scientific, biological, and objectively reasonable perspective, there are only two genders. Male or female. This is a fact that cannot be disputed.
How someone wishes to identify, however, is an entirely different matter, and lately I have found myself being more against the ill logics of the nonbinary movement despite being a part of the gay community. The reason for this is quite simple: I can no more support the delusion of a nonbinary concept any more than I can the concept of a deity that does not exist. Granted, how one wishes to identify in relation to the nonbinary ideology is not harmful to others. Therefore, I have no qualms accepting how others wish to identify. Yet, in spite of this, I cannot fully accept being nonbinary is in any way rational.
I can accept inclusivity up to a reasonable point, but once it no longer resembles logic I cannot in good conscience accept it as a reality.
Look at it this way: we all have some inherent masculinity or femininity inside of us. (Think Carl Jung.) But we also have inner aspects that are androgynous. Nonbinary people simply identify most with that "androgynous inner self."
I know that folks, like Jordan Peterson, really like Jung's emphasis on embracing our maleness or femaleness respectively. But I think a careful reading of Jung's phenomenology produces a proto-theory of gender fluidity. Of course, you have to dismiss many of Jung's outdated opinions and do your own thinking about the matter. But that's how I've always assessed his phenomenology.
In the end, just like some guys are feminine and some women masculine, so too are there people who don't identify with their sex, yet neither do they identify with the opposite sex.