Is non-binary a counter culture? What exactly are the requirements to be a counter culture, anyway? What does it mean to be a counter culture?
I see much more anti-young people rhetoric from bored old people who are unhappy with their lives than I see actual young people participating in all this stuff old people are flipping their lids about all the damn time. It's enough to drive you to non-binary just so they'll shut up about it, after being g proven "right".
Then, there's a difference in your life and your digital life. I don't advertise being non-binary online, but I don't advertise my gender either. That's for a specific reason; because creepy old men are up in kids spaces on the internet shopping for their next love. You don't tell your age and you don't tell your gender.
You don't either.
So what's the difference between tagging your online identity as non-binary in an attempt to protect yourself from creepers and just not advertising but living a gendered life IRL? Is that counter culture?
I do think Mommers is onto something about too much being made about gender expression. A lot of my peers have been through bouts of depression, suicidal, and self harming. The young are also the most heavily propagandized in school, and the least able to resist it.
I know once Mommers pulled me out od school, my anxiety and stress virtually disappeared. I used to throw up every night over stress going to school.