in general I'm pretty sympathetic to the idea that standard gendered categorizations and scripts are unfair and coercive in damaging and illigitimate ways that can end up being essentially culturally supported gaslighting of gnc and nb people who's identities and agency aren't...
Why does this apply only to gender? We put people in categories constantly, which serve as sort of rough prediction tools in absence of more information. Race is a big one - race does predict a lot about a person most of the time, but often doesn't.
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Stuff like height, attractiveness, even basic stuff like where you're from or what school you went to or if you went to school - all that seems to do the sort of thing that gender does, though maybe to slightly less an extent.
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A lot of people get things very wrong about me on first glance because of the apparent categories I belong to. I usually interpret me as being a "category violation", or a surprise, and this has been integrated into my character identity.
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