A manga I have been reading called Love Me for Who I Am, which has a non-binary main character (fem presenting AMAB), and just recently had the main character confronting their parents over their identity, which had me pretty much with tears in my eyes over it.
FlaminPika wrote:
Of course, some individuals might just call me a 'beta male', and I don't really care. I believe the gender binary is itself a narrow minded concept that shuts off the conversation before it can even happen when people are simply trying to understand themselves. It's a shame that some people will never be okay with the idea of gender and sex not having the same exact meaning.
People who use the whole beta male thing are cringe. It is like, way to go in adopting a highly disputable study for wolves that was debunked by the person that created the idea. I just recently heard the idea of I think Sigma Males, which was the idea of a person who is cool but doesn't try, which was essentially the quite loner type that are likely to be school shooters or something. It is silly that the same people who are critical of the idea of gender separate from sex that there would be different gender like those under non-binary, are the exact kind that are so ready to buy into new versions of males.
The idea of meeting some idea of masculinity never really made sense to me, rather than just maybe not wanting to be seen as strange. I remember one time in Highschool I showed someone an idea of a dance, and were pretty much told it was too girly or something, and I was mostly embarrassed that I crossed some idea of gender that I had no idea.
I wish that I was more brave with things, I recently have been experimenting with things like my nails, having only one hand with long nails and nail polish and were thinking about ideas of maybe having one half of my hair be longer. I generally can rarely correct people when they refer to me with male terms.
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