I don't think it's supposed to be that most people identify as nonbinary, rather that society has tried (seven surrenders: abg greevoyl fhpprffshyyl) to abolish gender as a societal construct, and then Mycroft gives people genders based on his idea of 18th century gender roles because he's a weirdo. The impression I'd got was that biological sex was supposed to be something like hair colour - some trait people have that might affect whether you want to have sex with them but not really part of people's identities.
Although this theory doesn't account for people's prurient interest in Sniper's biological sex, so it's probably wrong.
To your list of concerns, I'd add "what about Africa?" I think there's an offhand mention of it being some kind of reservation, but that raised more questions than it answered.
I don't think it's supposed to be that most people identify as nonbinary
Oops, sorry, I didn't really have the vocabulary to say what I intended. I didn't mean to say that people identify as nonbinary in the way I'd mean today, in considering themselves nonbinary, as opposed to predominantly male or female. But everyone dressing in ways not reflecting a sex, and using pronouns not reflecting a sex, even if they consider themselves male, female or something else inside.
But it seemed strange that, if they avoid mentioning sex differentiation, that *more* people don't identify as non-binary, like people without a strong gender identification being nonbinary-by-default instead of cis-by-default, even if many people do see themselves as male or female even if that's not as major a component of their identity (or at least, it's not polite to admit it).
like hair colour - some trait people have that might affect whether you want to have sex with them but not really part of people's identities.That was about my interpretation, at least of
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Although this theory doesn't account for people's prurient interest in Sniper's biological sex, so it's probably wrong.
To your list of concerns, I'd add "what about Africa?" I think there's an offhand mention of it being some kind of reservation, but that raised more questions than it answered.
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Oops, sorry, I didn't really have the vocabulary to say what I intended. I didn't mean to say that people identify as nonbinary in the way I'd mean today, in considering themselves nonbinary, as opposed to predominantly male or female. But everyone dressing in ways not reflecting a sex, and using pronouns not reflecting a sex, even if they consider themselves male, female or something else inside.
But it seemed strange that, if they avoid mentioning sex differentiation, that *more* people don't identify as non-binary, like people without a strong gender identification being nonbinary-by-default instead of cis-by-default, even if many people do see themselves as male or female even if that's not as major a component of their identity (or at least, it's not polite to admit it).
like hair colour - some trait people have that might affect whether you want to have sex with them but not really part of people's identities.That was about my interpretation, at least of ( ... )
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