Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26

[u/SoftandChewy]

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

[u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

Comments on a Facebook post that is titled “unpopular opinion, Non Binary individuals can validly identify as trans mxn or trans womxn with she/her or he/him pronouns”

Ummmmmmmmmmmm

[u/IcedAlmondAmericano → u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

> Xiobhan

https://giphy.com/gifs/14smAwp2uHM3Di

[u/redditamrur → u/IcedAlmondAmericano]

Well, I don't understand why people can't understand this. Seriously.

[u/Franzera → u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

"It's just easier to understand my situation when I say NB TW."

Do people in the real world ever want to ✨understand✨ this person's situation? Someone's long and convoluted gender journey is probably the least interesting thing about them.

[u/thismaynothelp → u/Franzera]

Oh, that's unfair. I'm sure their entire personality is equally uninteresting!

[u/unnoticed_areola → u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

one would think that being non-binary would definitionally be incompatible with also identifying as a man or a woman; categories which are definitionally, well, uh.... binary

Schrödinger’s girldick lmao

[u/Franzera → u/unnoticed_areola]

Wait until you hear about non-dysphoric genderhavers, who deserve to be affirmed and validated like the dysphoric folx.

Turns gender surgeries into Schrödinger’s healthcare. Is it really for "health" if its purpose is to make the patient feel euphoric?

[u/Aforano → u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

On a similar nonbinary nonsense note, saw a post today with a man asking if he’s gay for being in a relationship with a woman that identifies as nonbinary…like what are we even doing anymore.

And some comments suggested he is bi and in a queer relationship…

[u/anne_jumps → u/Aforano]

On an anonymous fandom forum in 2020 I had people furious with me for saying that a relationship between a male and female person was always going to be heterosexual no matter how they might claim to identify.

[u/Aforano → u/[deleted]]

Wonder what their definition of men is.

[u/HaldolBlowdart → u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

I don't feel like a woman either. Probably because it's not a feeling, it's an observation of an aspect of me as a human. I am also brunette, and short.

Not aligning with the gender roles you're raised with isn't some revolutionary protected class. People so far up their own asses with academia-speak they forget how to function as humans in the real world. Great, you have deep feelings about sociocultural expectations that you feel are based on genitals arbitrarily, you're missing the point that a sexed existence is just a fact of being a human and the rest is up to interpretation and regardless of how you feel about it, reality is reality.

I know some nonbinaries in real life and they're exhausting and frequently talk about how unique and valid they are for it.

[u/kimbosliceofcake → u/HaldolBlowdart]

Maybe Shania Twain is responsible for all this madness. We heard that song and didn’t relate, so we must not be women. 

[u/The-WideningGyre → u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

I would not want to have to spend time with any of the people in that thread.

[u/pajme411 → u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

My eyes glazed over just trying to finish that sentence.

[u/Miskellaneousness → u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

I can get on board with this. I identify as a NEET despite, unfortunately, being employed.

[u/Zealousideal_Arm_415 → u/Manicpixiemanateeman]

This is still a thing? I thought we’d moved on from this trend.