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Wait, you guys got a gender???
114 upvotes, 11 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in LGBTQIA+. "Wait, you guys got a gender???"
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Anonymous 9w

Couldn’t be me! 💃🏼

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Anonymous 9w

Doesn’t everyone have a gender? Philosophically ofc.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

Gender is how you identify, so no.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

Alright. Then I’m genuinely confused. What would be an example of not having a gender?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

Identifying as not having one…? Or choosing not to make the distinction of one? 😭😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

Wouldn’t that just mean that your gender is “none” or “agender”? (I could be wrong about the usage of agender here)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

If something doesn’t exist, you don’t have to label it. easy as that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

I think that’s the part that confuses me. To me, that’s like saying 0 (zero) doesn’t need a label because it doesn’t exist. Like yeah zero is technically “nothing,” but we need a label for “nothing” in order to understand it and to expand our knowledge. Without a label for zero we wouldn’t have coding. Phones wouldn’t have been possible.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

yeah whatever man 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

Agender would be the closest approximation to 0 gender in terms of a label, but if someone doesn’t want to label themselves they don’t want to. We are not computers, we’re living breathing, feeling humans.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9w

*don’t have to* my brain tried to say 2 different things at the same time 😭

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