Oh if you're genuinely curious I'm happy to answer. Love Mae Martin and searched for them on here to see if they had a thread. Unfortunately it took me to your ignorant post.
You're a lesbian? Even more baffling to me that someone in the queer community can't comprehend the concept of identifying as non-binary. Mae never identified as lesbian as far as I know but even if they did, sexuality is fluid.
You're concerned with lesbian visibility? Imagine how non-binary people feel.
Must be restrictive and miserable living such a black and white, unforgiving existence.
I'm not virtue signalling I just take issue with people being willfully ignorant.
I see, so you jumped into a thread without any context, found a post and jumped on that.
We can safely say from your posts that you didn’t realise a lesbian was writing about why Mae Martin basically posing as a lesbian / failing to correct the assumption she was one, might be very annoying, so case closed there. Just for information, lesbians are allowed to talk about this and other things that affect them, without you policing this (whether you’re a lesbian yourself or not).
As for the gender identity element, it isn’t “living a black and white existence” to recognise biological sex. If you think it is “boring” in some way to be aware that being female is real and quite meaningful and you can’t identify out of nor into it, this thread might not float your boat, though in my experience genuine exchanges of views here are welcome. We can all of course play look, look, I’ve found a post that’s wrong! — and engage in “I’m the most open-minded, the best observer of pronouns etc” if that’s our choice.
What I find boring is acting like coming up with or banging on about endless new identities is in some way edgy or modern or more intelligent or worthy than noting what biological reality means for all of us but especially girls and women, or that it’s somehow further forward than the idea Mae Martin can present and act as gender-non-conforming as she wants, or not, and still she is a woman. What’s truly tedious is acting like most people aren’t a little bit “non-binary” once it is clarified what “non-binary” actually means, to the point that it’s basically a pointless term. One concerning part being that that doesn’t stop top surgery for women being part of the expected look once this very freeing identity rolls around, whereas of course men don’t really have to do anything.
In the 80s, we all knew Boy George was a man. In the 90s, Eddie Izzard knew he was, and a transvestite too, and how honest of him. We seem to have gone backwards now. Gender ideology isn’t open-mindedness writ large but simple sexism. “Gender criticals” have very diverse and fluid ideas of gender in comparison to those who think it’s possible to “feel” like a woman or not (even if you are one), they (we, let me get the pronouns right!) just always recognise biological sex.
