#masc nonbinary

[THEY USE THEY/THEM. PLEASE DO NOT HE/HIM THEM ON THIS POST, THIS IS ABOUT THEM BEING A MASC TERM-USING ENBY.]

I see this often in different fandoms, where they often forget that the fact someone being okay with more gendered terms and them being enby aren't seperate things.

In other words, that someone can use and feel included in masculine terms such as "cowboy" or "[the] boys" while still not being male or using "he/him".

I see the Deltarune fandom unintentionally erase that aspect to Jongler, instead opting for terms like "cowpoke" or "cowthey" (which I once got corrected with after using "cowboy," despite that being the term used in-game.)

It's well-intended and done to be inclusive, but ends up as erasure of nonbinary inclusion in more gender-neutral terms, solely because they end up masc or fem (such as "guys," "dude," or "bro," which are masc, but often used in a gender-neutral way.) Excluding someone from a term used in the source material, as inclusive as you want to make it out to be, ends up making that kind of person in reality feel excluded too.

Remember, you can have good intentions and still accidentally take part in erasure.

That when we talk media, we never get to see a masc girl/woman or even just afab gender non conforming person that is masculine looking ever get a femboy or very feminine man.

When masc women and gnc afabs are shown in media paired with someone feminine it's always a female. Always the "dichotomous lesbian couple" dynamics.

And when femboys or feminine men show up it's the same thing, they're almost always paired with men.

And when we do have a feminine man with a woman she is almost NEVER allowed to be truly masc presenting, she still has to fit in a more feminine box, she still has to be "not too masc", otherwise it's a no go.