To me, GQ is not about creating a "new gender" (jokes aside) so much as defying norms to the point the binary categories don't make sense.https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/849230375947837440 …
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Society imposing gender on me my whole life was an emotional violence and identifying as agender is a form of self-reclamation (1)
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Identifying as agender allows me to create a place for myself where I can engage with gendered expression on my own terms (2)
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Exactly how I see it, tbh. It's not like I want to be some new gender, I just fucking hate the restrictions put on me by a binary system
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Binary terminology is way too confining for me and doesn't aptly represent the way I outwardly express my gender or the way I see myself.
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I think of gender as a purely personal thing, but the way you express that is political by nature. If you id/present as a man/woman/neither-
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That has meaning. Calling oneself GQ/NB simply is taking a stance that isn't binary. Even men/women experience gender uniquely.
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I don't even call myself "non-binary", I just don't belong in either the "male" or "female" categories. I don't really give it much thought.
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I'm probably in the minority but I don't consider gender expression to be of much importance, but understand that labels are useful for many
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nb terms are not for "a new gender", just new words for an old phenomenon. people who think this is new have no historical perspective.
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