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This really pisses me off. The fact that you don't fit cultural stereotypes of femininity doesn't mean that you are not a woman. If you try to pretend you aren't one, you still won't be excused for not fitting social norms. You
should have been told nothing was wrong with you - because it is, in fact, perfectly OK not to be feminine. But you are still female. I've seen this in a lot of online spaces for East and South-East Asian people, and I've seen it in the real world too. These are cultures where gender roles are very rigid, so gay and GNC people start identifying as trans/non-binary to try to escape that pressure. Or they genuinely believe "if I don't fit what society says a man/woman is, that means I'm not really a man/woman." Another example is the Japanese women's footballer Kumi Yokoyama who struggled to be accepted as a lesbian in Japan, then she joined an American team and magically realised she was a trans "man." I have an SE Asian friend who got out of an abusive arranged marriage and was afraid of being pushed to re-marry, so she decided she was "non-binary." We do not need gender nonsense, we need real change and acceptance
The woman in this TikTok is ridiculous, she made
this comic and she was criticised for drawing her partner to look nothing like himself so as to obscure that she was dating a white man (not wanting to play into the "all Asian women want white men" stereotype or to admit she really is a straight woman)