My life…

I do not need to “protect nonbinary teens” nor does anyone else. Stop furthering this ridiculous victim complex that people think everyone in society should live by. 

Please enlighten me on how it’s a “victim complex” for someone to wish for acceptance when 90% of the population refuses to believe their identity even exists?

So, to elaborate on what you’re saying, you think that people are wrong to be upset or hurt when people discriminate against them, don’t take an integral part of them seriously, and try to invalidate them?

Hm, interesting.

Also, by saying “I don’t need to protect nonbinary teens.” you may as well say “It’s inconvenient for me to simply acknowledge that these people exist and they’re valid, so why bother because if it doesn’t benefit me then I don’t care.”

So, say what you want, but about 35,000 people strongly disagree with you and you make no sense, so I’m not very inclined to take your “opinion” with a grain of salt.

35k people do not trump 7 billion on Earth. To insinuate that 35 thousand people shows any sort of majority to what you feel is just stupid. That number is minuscule compared to how many people are on this planet. I do not “ignore” people of non binary sexuality nor do I even think 90% of the population refuses to believe that they even exist? Can you show some sort of proof to that? And before you jump into the “I don’t need to show proof” argument you actually do. To make an accusation such as that requires you to show me that legitimately 90% of the Earths populace actually believe or do not believe in that. Something like that is statistically impossible to prove or disprove. I also did not ask you to take my opinion with a grain of salt. I simply stated how I felt about what you posted. As I said I do not ignore these people but I also acknowledge that I have no responsibility to them in any which way. 

Of course it is inaccurate to assume that 35k is an accurate representation of the population, but given the community of this site, it is still a substantial figure to be 35k:1 ratio of support.

Also, I would love it if you could not use ableist slurs while trying to support your asinine statement, please. I don’t want my followers to have that on their dash. =u=

My statement was a cumulative observation comparing interactions online and offline of people. I’m speaking on a scale pertaining to the USA, because quite bluntly I don’t know how people in other countries feel about nonbinary folk.

Now, I wouldn’t discount my observations simply because I haven’t met every single person in the country. That sort of criteria would immediately invalidate EVERY poll or survey ever run in this country. Are you really going to tell me that no collection of data is ever valid because of your paticular standards? I certainly hope not, for the sake of being rational.

Continuing on my previous thought, given the amount of people I’ve interacted with in my entire life, both strangers and familiar faces alike, offline I have encountered maybe 2 people who knew what nonbinary was before I explained it to them upon talking about it. How many people have I discussed such things with? Offline, about 50 people in my life time. So doubling that figure to fit a percentage scale, 4 out of 100 or 4% of random people in the northwestern area of the United States are aware of nonbinary identities. And mind you, I live in an incredibly liberal part of the nation. Go to Texas or some other Southern state, and it wouldn’t surprise me for the rate to drop under 1%. 

Online, I’ve discussed nonbinary identities with many more people. If I were to approximate… I would say closer to 150 or 200? From then, skipping all the tedious details, the percentage jumps from 4% to about…. 8%. Still not looking very good. And of course, I’m only counting people who are not nonbinary themselves.

So, given a small but effective sample of people, we can see that nonbinary folk are underrepresented and underspoken about. 

So when a youth does come out as nonbinary, they are more often than not responded to with skepticism, criticism, and general asshattery ((sorry I just really wanted to work the way asshattery into this discussion)).

Does this not warrant that we take 5 seconds to acknowledge them and support them? It can be a simple reblog of a post, or using their preferred pronouns without throwing a fit over it, or just knowing they are valid. Does it truly expend that much energy to you?

I get riled up because the internet is more or less a good place for LGBT+ people to find support when there is little offline. And for you to step in a post uplifting nonbinary folk baffles me completely.

Why do you feel the need to drop a bitter, snarky remark on something uplifting? Do you feel important giving that opinion of yours? Was it REALLY necessary to interrupt with the same crap they hear everywhere else?

If you answered yes to the last two questions, I truly have nothing more to say to you, because there is clearly no bothering with you.

All this aside, I can only hope this gave you some sort of perspective. It’s important to be aware of other people.

To put it simply. “Ableist” is something that does not exist. More so something that people of minority started saying to make others feel like shit for having a different outlook on certain subjects. And to answer your question no I do not discount all collection of data on all subjects simply because it is not 100 percent of the populace but I also acknowledge AGAIN that 35k people do not speak for 7 billion. Just as me being one person does not mean there are not more people who feel as I do. But for you to say that treating someone with skepticism or criticism is “asshattery” to me is pretty much equivilent to saying “If you have any questions or doubt your a complete asshole”. That however is a simple observation on my end, Also for you to say “For you to step in a post uplifting nonbinary folk baffles me complete” is just confusing for me? Why does this baffle you? Is it because I have an objective stance on the “protect” part of your post or is it because you most likely assume I’m a “white cis male” sorry to just blatantly ask that but I’m used to people assuming thats what I am. I do not view what I say as bitter nor snarky more so I view what I say as just stating my personal opinion on a public forum where as far as I know I have the right to do so as I please. But for you to say something like “There is clearly no bothering with you” is pretty much telling me you believe I have no right to opinion or questioning. Is this not something you think gives a reason for people to act the way you supposedly say they do to LGBT and so on? It saddens me that instead of choosing to have a calm intelligent discussion with people who differ in opinions than you, you just choose to use the old “I’m done with this conversation” routine. If you hope to change the minds of people in this world then you must accept that conversations like this are needed. I am aware of other people just as they are aware of me but I also know they have no responsibility to protect me and they also have no need to save my emotions. Vice versa.