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hackmum · 09/02/2018 16:17

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/09/polyamory-trans-documentary-love-unlimited

'The film says my son and his partner regard themselves as non-binary “in that they identify as neither exclusively masculine nor feminine”. Wrong, says my son, when I discuss it with him: they see themselves as neither exclusively male nor female, but his partner strongly identifies as femme.'

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nauticant · 09/02/2018 17:33

Ah, that sounds familiar from the world of politics. You have group A who want to enforce their will on group B, but are canny enough not to enforce it on the mass of group C because group C would wake up and go "you what? no way will we put up with that".

HairyBallTheorem · 09/02/2018 17:10

No nauticant not all of us. They need a "cis" lumpenproletariat against which they can define themselves as special.

nauticant · 09/02/2018 16:24

They won't be happy until every one us of has identified themselves into one of several thousand ultra-specific boxes and have the associated barcode* tattooed onto our foreheads. (This is posted half in jest.)

  • thinking about it, a QR code would seem to be more fitting