Yeah, I'm hoping NB will just fade away once enough people jump on the bandwagon and it stops being edgy. If it gets popular enough, people will need to find a new way to signal their "oppression." It's like how being a goth just faded away after a while, and hipsters are no longer "cool." But it's always depressing watching stupidity when it's in the ascendence.
Yeah, I'm hoping NB will just fade away once enough people jump on the bandwagon and it stops being edgy. If it gets popular enough, people will need to find a new way to signal their "oppression." It's like how being a goth just faded away after a while, and hipsters are no longer "cool." But it's always depressing watching stupidity when it's in the ascendence.
I hope you are right. I just read an article in the SF Chronicle about footraces adding an NB category to their registration. Apparently, the activists are demanding that the (tiny number of) NB participants receive the same set of monetary and non-monetary prizes as men's and women's sections, so that NB have equal status with male and female. And then there's the qualifying times for some race classes, differing for men and women - one of the races split the difference for their NB qualifying times, but NB activists say they should receive the women's qualifying time (even tho they do not identify as women). And yes, they mention "safety" as one of the reasons they need this "equal" treatment for their gender. And the "trans-masculine" person interviewed was saying they might not do the race if they weren't getting the same prizes as other genders.
The best quote was an indignant protest that having only male and female categories makes the race distinctions about sex, as if it's perfectly obvious to any decent person that a physical race should be categorized by subjective gender identity instead (including NB for themselves/themself). And increasing numbers of races are accommodating these escalating demands.
Anyway, I started to think that perhaps the only solution would be if everyone entered the race as nonbinary (who's to dispute that they were feeling that way on that day?).
How would they respond? It's pretty crucial to them that everybody must be allowed the complete and unquestioned right to identify as whatever they want, at any time, without gatekeepers. And as you say, virtually all of us are nonbinary, somewhere on a spectrum, so it would not be lying.
As you say, the initial NB's would likely abandon the label quickly in this eventuality, for not producing the desired payoffs. What would the next oppression be, tho?
"But the NBs have us beaten."
Yeah, I'm hoping NB will just fade away once enough people jump on the bandwagon and it stops being edgy. If it gets popular enough, people will need to find a new way to signal their "oppression." It's like how being a goth just faded away after a while, and hipsters are no longer "cool." But it's always depressing watching stupidity when it's in the ascendence.
I hope you are right. I just read an article in the SF Chronicle about footraces adding an NB category to their registration. Apparently, the activists are demanding that the (tiny number of) NB participants receive the same set of monetary and non-monetary prizes as men's and women's sections, so that NB have equal status with male and female. And then there's the qualifying times for some race classes, differing for men and women - one of the races split the difference for their NB qualifying times, but NB activists say they should receive the women's qualifying time (even tho they do not identify as women). And yes, they mention "safety" as one of the reasons they need this "equal" treatment for their gender. And the "trans-masculine" person interviewed was saying they might not do the race if they weren't getting the same prizes as other genders.
The best quote was an indignant protest that having only male and female categories makes the race distinctions about sex, as if it's perfectly obvious to any decent person that a physical race should be categorized by subjective gender identity instead (including NB for themselves/themself). And increasing numbers of races are accommodating these escalating demands.
Anyway, I started to think that perhaps the only solution would be if everyone entered the race as nonbinary (who's to dispute that they were feeling that way on that day?).
How would they respond? It's pretty crucial to them that everybody must be allowed the complete and unquestioned right to identify as whatever they want, at any time, without gatekeepers. And as you say, virtually all of us are nonbinary, somewhere on a spectrum, so it would not be lying.
As you say, the initial NB's would likely abandon the label quickly in this eventuality, for not producing the desired payoffs. What would the next oppression be, tho?