Interview · moment 10 of 28
Non-Binary Identity as Trend, Not Dysphoria
from #204 - Katie Herzog | The Tim Dillon Show · #204
3 min
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Katie and Tim discuss the rise of non-binary identification among mostly white college students, arguing it reinforces gender stereotypes and functions more as a social/identity trend than genuine dysphoria.
- Tim argues that many white middle-class college students identifying as non-binary are experiencing an identity crisis rooted in socio-political concerns rather than true gender dysphoria.
- He's skeptical whether people have actually studied how many non-binary identifiers eventually return to heterosexual or homosexual lives, since the phenomenon is too new for good data.
- Tim finds the concept of non-binary incredibly regressive because it presupposes a binary divide and relies on gender stereotypes.
- He describes conversations with non-binary friends where they explain feeling like a man sometimes and a woman other times, or wearing masculine or feminine clothes depending on mood.
- Reinforcing gender stereotypes about clothing and feeling contradicts what both men and women should be rejecting, in Tim's view.
- Non-binary identity is undeniably trendy, whether people want to admit it or not.
- When Tim was a teenager, people organized around cliques and styles—goths, emo kids, jocks, rednecks—rather than constantly discussing identity.
- Now there are just more labels: non-binaries, indies, activists, anarchists, asexuals, aromantiques, furries—more categories than he ever imagined.