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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to preface this, I'm a liberal feminist and most of my friends identify as the same. That being said, I really just don't understand this new uptick in being "non binary". I think it certainly exists, but probably not in the droves of people who are claiming it.[b] I can't ask any of my friends about this because they would say I'm terrible for having these thoughts[/b]. I think that people should be able to decide what gender/sexuality they prefer but when people elect to be neither gender it just gets messy from a logistical standpoint and then someone is always offended. I have a friend from high school who very publicly on fb declared that she is non binary and will not be going by her "dead name" and only wants "they/them" pronouns. Okay, I can respect that. However I have other non b friends who say that it is offensive to assign them a gender or misgender them  behind their back when referrring to them to other people. This is where it's weird for me. For example, when I refer to my friend when talking to my mom, I really don't want to explain the complexity of this friend's gender (or lack of) so I still refer to them as "her". Obviously I feel like a shitty person for all of this and I guess I'm also kinda confused??[/quote]

Then you need new friends.

But I'm not surprised, if most of your current friends "identify" as liberal feminists. For the most part, they are a pack of fools.[/quote]
Oh come on. I'm a liberal feminist, as are most of my friends (male and female) and we welcome these kinds of questions and discussions. How else is someone supposed to learn?[/quote]

Good point. But when "friends" respond to questions like OP's by saying that "she is a terrible person," one could state that they are hardly open to "learning" anything. Especially if it deals with sanity and reason.[/quote]

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