ppl w nonbinary genders are not all just “between” male and female. gender isn’t a male/female zero-sum game pls stop
this took me a while to unlearn, until someone basically said “look, colors are a spectrum. if you assign pink to women and blue to men, that doesn’t make every other color a variation of purple”
^potentially helpful way to conceptualize this
I remember one tumblr post that went around ages ago that suggested thinking of gender less like this
and more like this.
Which honestly helped me understand this concept more than anything else when I first started to explore ideas of gender and sexuality
