hey full offense but Iâm really gonna need people to stop thinking of men- and women-aligned as polar opposites. âmen-alignedâ and âwomen-alignedâ are terms a nonbinary person can use to describe the ways they feel connected to binary genders/experiences, which can mean partially being a binary gender (demigirl, demiboy, genderlfuid/flux people who go through binary genders, etc.), it can mean feeling a connection to the gender you were assigned at birth because you spent so long living as if that was your truth, it can even mean feeling connected to binary experiences because you present feminine/masculine, and much, much more!Â
and, surprisingly enough, this means that you can identify with both men-aligned and women-aligned! an nb person can be a demiboy who presents masculine and therefore consider themselves men-aligned, while also being afab and identifying with womenâs experiences with oppression in the patriarchy, which is why they also consider themselves women-aligned. And thatâs just one example! There are literally a million ways to identify as both men- and women-aligned!
the alignment system is much more complex than people give it credit for. when we say that âmen-aligned people arenât men and women-aligned people arenât womenâ, we mean it. nb experiences are much more complex than that, and Iâd strongly appreciate it if yâall stopped enforcing this bullshit by saying stuff like âwomen-aligned nb people are welcome, but not men-aligned nb people!âÂ
âmen-alignedâ and âwomen-alignedâ arenât mutually exclusive terms, it isnât the binary of nb genders or whatever yâall seem to think it is, and Iâm going to need everyone (yes, even other nb people, Iâve seen so many nb people perpetuate this bullshit too) to step up their game and protect nb people with complicated experiences.