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Reject labels! Or embrace labels! Do as you wish as long as you respect others! (64.media.tumblr.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The rhetoric I described is absolutely being weaponized against people. If you follow the reason behind the arugment that someone is "normal, not cis", then you would then conclude that trans and nb people are not normal. Anyone who accepts that argument would likely conclude that not only are trans women not "normal women", and trans men not "normal men", but that they are not actually real women or men.

As for gen z being infatuated with labels, I will admit I don't understand many of them, but I'm fine with them if they help people communicate their identity better. I wouldn't claim that any labels are redundant or just attention seeking without any actual evidence or reasoning behind it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm taking issue with your first example, not your second. There's a world of difference.

But when people say queer people are obsessed with labels [...] what they're almost certainly taking issue with is non-cisheteronormativity being recognized and validated.

This statement I think is incorrect.