Which one is non-gender again? All these young people that like to
confuse their elders. The teen actress came out a while ago to explain
why she only dates white men, then a few months later, she came out as a
lesbian. Now she claims she's a non-gender. What kind of gender
classification is that? Similar to Jaden Smith's confusion? Read what
she wrote after the cut and tell us if she makes sense to you...
I am a nonbinary (or agender, maybe) feminist and I had
to fight very hard to become someone who was comfortable defining as
either of those things, and then as both of those things. I have had a
lot of discussions lately with my closest nb feminist friends about this
and the fundamental thing we have all agreed on is that there is a
conversation that badly needs to be had more often about how, even if
you don’t feel 100% ‘female’, even if you never did feel 100% ‘female’,
the world begins treating you as ‘female’ from a very young age and that
is always, no matter how you end up defining yourself, going to have
shaped your life experience.
So, I’m not a girl any more, or I never was one. but when I was young
I didn’t know there was any alternative to what people were telling me I
was, i.e. a girl. it never fit me, but that didn’t stop me from
believing that was what I was because that’s what I was constantly being
told - by my family, by society, by ambient media consumption, by
changing in the girls’ room and not the boys’ room at school, by a
thousand thousand things that happened every day. and, in that sense,
despite not being a girl, I lived the life of one, the everyday warped
reality of one, and so to all intents and purposes believe I can claim
feminism as my own movement because not actually being a girl didn’t
save me from the things that were done to me because everyone else
thought I was one.
