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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Following.  I am in a similar situation with my DD.  She told us a few years ago she is lesbian (not terribly surprising) but now says she identifies as a demigirl and prefers they/them pronouns.  I did some research, and demigirl sounds basically like what I have felt like my entire life but never really thought twice about.  I am not conventionally feminine, and my husband is not conventionally macho.  Our generation worked so hard to expand the notion of what it means to be female--you can be strong, ambitious, loud, athletic, aggressive, whatever--and now it seems like kids are putting "female" in this small, weak box and identifying anything outside that stereotype as something other.  In many ways, it feels like a repudiation of feminism and several steps back.  I'm trying to be supportive but just don't get it. [/quote]
Yep. The whole fluid gender stuff is swinging so far in the other direction that it's now misogynistic AF. As a woman who played a male dominated sport and has painted her nails exactly twice, this crap is making me so mad. Just be who you are and find something else to do besides coming up with a thousand labels to describe you. Nobody cares about you. This navel gazing selfie culture is so gross.[/quote]

Nothing fights misogyny quite like telling young women "nobody cares about you."[/quote]

Plus telling someone that you know how they feel better than they do is a powerful message of disregard for their experiences. [/quote]

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