Recent major pet peeve I have is how non-binary people will say they're not a man or a woman, but a "person". It drives me wild, like of course you're a person, that's what everyone is first and foremost. I guess it's a result of sexism and being seen as your gender first, but oh my god you're not gonna solve that by saying you're not a man or a woman. I understand the reasoning but it upsets me, like I'm not less of a "person" because I'm not non-binary, nor are you more of one bc you are non-binary
It's like I've said in other posts, it's going about things the wrong way. If your upset with how sexism makes the world view you because of your gender, opting out of the gender won't stop anyone from treating you the same way as they did before. It won't change anything.
Now, saying, "I'm a women/man. But I'm a person first. And that should mean something," would actually create some meaning. And if you combine that with actions to actually combat sexism you'll find change significantly more likely to occur.
Because how we view gender roles is a super important topic. How you can express yourself be it gender presentation, being trans, being cis, being LGBT, or even just being straight is all effected by gender roles. Not defined by-- but effected by (key distinction. All those things exist outside of gender roles, but gender roles effect how we can express them). And I wish that was the focus, not throwing others under the bus like I've seen time and time again.
