I was born as a de facto male sort of something, in other words intersex. In addition to male parts I have female bits. Even though most of those female bits were removed over my life time. The one female bit that couldn't be removed was that part between my ears. So I spent the majority of my life trying to be a male, I've even been married for most of my adult life. Fortunately my spouse accepts me for who I am because she saw first hand the pain I suffered from all the surgeries and the chemotherapy from a form of testicular/ovarian cancer. She has seen me cry and cry in pain. Not just physical pain but emotional pain too. I really embrace the TED speech with all my spirit.
@@MarinaUgandaCancer is a condition, intersex is not...but unfortunately it's made out to be one by society. And along similar lines, would you therefore say homosexuality is a condition too (a 'fault' that needs 'fixing')...like having cancer, like being intersex? Not every difference is a pathology.
According to the " gender ideology ", teaching female behaviors to a girl is to impose an odious socially constructed stereotype , but teach them a boy is just help him express his natural tendencies. (Olavo de Carvalho
Cara em nenhum momento ele falou sobre ideologia de gênero, vc ao menos viu o vídeo até o final? Ideologia de gênero é besteira e vai contra tudo q o cara do video falou, vc ao menos sabe oq é ideologia de gênero? Bem, vc citou olavo de carvalho então eu acho q não
Can someone help me out? I don't understand why we continue to gender traits like this? Surely we all want to work towards a gender blind society rather than people with more traditionally feminine characteristics identifying as women and vice versa? Does this not solidify gender stereotypes and potentially opress people more?
Gender fluidity is not about making boys girly or making girls masculine. That's just as bad as enforcing gender stereotypes. Not everyone is extremely masculine or extremly feminine. The pressure to conform to society's version of gender often means sacrificing abilities and strengths.
Thank you, my child is changing maybe I shouldn't say changing she is who she has always been and has now shared it with me. I'm so happy she has, so I have been doing as much research to understand all the complexities. So that I may be conscious of the things she goes through & others. So again Thank you for sharing such a wonderful talk!
No matter the gender presentation or identity, society can do without the perpetuation of homophobia, sexism, misogyny, racism, and classism. The separation of aesthetic and pathology is the key eradicating those social ills.
He actually listed a number of gender identities ... far more than the 2 we have now, and the one you seem to think he's advocating. And, he's talking about freedom of expression ... the freedom to express who we are, rather than who we are told to be.
all the jerks on here need to stop bashing this video and this guy. I agree with everything he says. Gender and sexuality are not the same thing, they are separate. A man can identify as a woman and vice versa.
I won't bash the ideas but I'll bash the guy since he's an unapologetic plagiarist off the work of trans people for profit: storify.com/cisnormativity/the-genderbread-plagiarist
+Ghast the Otaku You seem woefully underinformed to be making such declarative statements. IF you'd like to know how things work, and are unwilling to look into it yourself, I'd be more than happy to tutor you. OR you can jsut continue to wallow in your ignorance. I really don't care. I just thought I'd offer.
I love makeup and hair and "feminine" things so much and I was assigned female at birth. but I dont feel like a girl I feel like I am more of a boy or neither. and I have short hair and I have a "man mind set" as some people like to say. but in general I am such a mix of feminine and masculine that some people get confused. so everyone just decides to call me she and act like I am a girl because that's what I was assigned and because it's easier for them because they would be confused. but they don't understand that just changing they way they treat me will make my life better and won't negatively effect their lives at all. I just wish from a young age people were taught about gender and respecting other people.
that is why i invented cookiegender. cookiegender is the sterotypical girly essence that we are fed though media and marketing, culture and toys. cookiegender "what are little girls made out of? sugar and spice and everything nice"
Reading the thoughts from the replies has been interesting. I don't fully approach Killermann's notions, however they are needed at this time. Why? We need more awareness, more compassion. more laughter. more love. Trolling on here about hating men is limitting. I suggest you read his book and then come back with your discussion. And please... spread the love, not the hate. All is full of Love.
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So many opinions and facts being thrown around. I don't really know where I stand. I want people to be accepting. I want people to be themselves and be happy. There are problems with both sides presented. Traditional thinking and new age thinking are both flawed. Maybe we should present both options to kids and let them play with whatever toy or wear whatever color they like. Whatever will fix the suffering of confusion and feeling out of place will do. It should be addressed.
If only this was available with subtitles on my first language... I would go through teacher to teacher in my school, or principal, or anyone with that kind of authority really, to ask them to show this in class. It'd be great. I could try to revoice this to my classmates during philosophy class, but apparently, it's not as easy to be taken seriously when you're a 15 year old girl, and a self proclaimed feminist.
@@tubester4567 well that's rude and unnecessary. do us a favor: don't say anything. Because clearly you're incapable of keeping your hurtful opinions to yourself.
i have watched 100rds of videos and talked to so many on what gender identity is and all i can gather is your all taking something so simple and turning it into something so complicated that it has lost its meaning entirely and your now trying to redefine it all, for no reason. basically everyone is saying that male and female roles are wrong and no one should be confined to stereotype roles of birth, true. but from there, all these labels to define and categorize every single degree of expression of someone self identity is just overkill ridiculous self indulgence. if we just fight to kill the stereotype roles and make it norm to be and act and do as you please that makes you happy and in no way hurts or effects others negatively. these labels make no sense and just hurt everything. if your going to hate on me then move on, if your going to offer real advice then i will be grateful to listen and learn. thank you.
+KellySmith555 TH-cam won't let me reply to your comment but for someone who writes extremely long-winded arguments you seem to be in a bit of a hurry so I'll be brief... The things I'm saying are not my opinion. Google it, go to a library, and while you're at it, take a valium because you clearly can't handle much objection to anything you say.
no actually he should give it up zero evidence and poorly structured and organized. painful to watch. damn take a publ;ic speech class or something, f'ing clueless presenter.
my dear!!!! my love!!!!! yes please gender neutral bathrooms im so uncomfortable at my school oh my god like do u even understand and like it really wouldnt hurt anyone to accomodate for the many trans and nonbinary teens at my highschool yes thank u
Please try regardless, if you think you can make a difference, even a small one do it, the world will be different after you do it, maybe it will be something small, but they will remember, maybe for someone it will be eye opening or it will prompt them to learn more about gender.
Here are the genders I know: Agender, bigender, cisgender, demigirl, demigirl, female, genderfluid, genderflux, genderqueer, gender neutral, male, non binary, transgender, trigender. There are many more genders but those are the ones I can think of right now.
Some of these comments here are quite saddening, but perhaps not surprising. It just shows that for many people diversity does not stand next to integration or acceptance of differences. Nice to see some of the supportive comments. Clever way of presenting with the rhymes, well done Sam.
I define myself by my personnality, my accomplishements, my nationality.. Why does gender has to be such a big deal? If you don't feel right in your skin go to a psychologist that'll help you know yourself and live your life...
He misinterprets the meaning of Shakespeare's famous words. It is not about how people force you to play a role in life. It's about how life happens in stages from infancy to old age. Why is what we think more real than what is in reality? Does he want a doctor to treat him as a male or female? It makes a difference...
How exactly did he disparage traditional masculinity? If you can make that argument, then we can easily say traditional femininity was attacked as well. In any case, he seemed to be neutral regarding each end of the spectrum (or spectrums as he put it).
15:51 In fact most I'm a male, and tend to do mostly manly stuff, and some feminine things, mostly when it comes to learning useful skills. But in my experience the people who were the worse at making it hard for my to be more open empathetic caring emotional and feminine were not who I would have suspected in every case it's been women my age that give me the most trouble. And in the past they have exploited that. So in fact I don't think masculinity as most see it, were feelings are rarely descused and certain activity's are avoided is not because they are backward and brutish as all the liberal post modern feminists and academics claim, it's wisdom that has been passed down from father to son as an insurance policy from the manipulations of women on a mans feelings, and the massive destructive power they wield over him.
My gender identity manifests itself in the form of wearing diapers, pretending to by a baby and messing in them. Gender identity is about what you want to be. And it's real because science have shown we have different brains to cis gender people but that doesn't mean we're insane it just means we have a fluidity of gender expressions.
It's not the exception tho, everyone has both masculine and feminine qualities. The way I see it, masculinity and femininity have very little to do with someones gender identity. If sex was such a concrete metric as you say it is, there wouldn't be as many surgeries on newborns as there are now. Guessing doesn't seem all that concrete to me. Forcing some men to live as women and some women to live as men, just so people can't "trick themselves" into transition doesn't sound healthy to me at all.
I think I don't quite get it yet. Shouldn't there be no genders at all instead of many many different ones? If gender defines an outline that we have to fit in (play by the script) but we feel bad while doing it because not everybody alligns with that script, that's destructive and bad for the personal development. That's why we move away from just male and female, right? I don't have to be manly all the time, like the speaker said, just because I have a penis. But if we have many different genders defined, don't we still define the roles people should fit in? Shouldn't we theoretically have a unique gender for everybody then that changes all the time depending on the development of the individual or just abolish gender alltogether?
Can you really toss aside the idea of biological sex that much? Out of the three, that was treated as the least important, and was pretty much narrowed down to specifically genetalia. There are more biological sex factors than reproductive organs, right? I mean a huge difference is the psychological set up and behavioral predispositions between men and women. That plays a massive amount into who people grow up to be, no matter if they are taught that or if they simply experience their own biological tendencies.
Yes I’m showing this to my family when I come out to them as non-binary Edit: welp I didn’t get accepted. o o p s- edit ✨two✨: i figured myself out! :D im demiboy but also femboy! hehe new name go brrrr i go by Chris now!
Aaaaaand we all know that feeling of utter disappointment when we relize that we might have just been trans but were denying it right? Hope we do!! I am in so much pain QwQ
@@ventishoodiealt im taking this gender and communication class in school and i have learned alot and im still learning sometimes people will just stay close minded and that isn't your fault you are who you are it is your life take it and do as you please and want screw who ever doesn't agree with you they aren't the one's who have to walk in your shoes
It's not black and white, it's a damn rainbow! You don't know where one color starts and the other ends, they're fluid, but can't exist w/out the other. :D I'm keen on checking out this book as well.
I absolutely adore this. Not only because he goes on to prove how a lot of societies are scared of difference and what it "may" bring. But what will actually come of freedom of thought about this sort of stuff? Change, equality, creativeness? Or some people not understanding- but we don't know because society hasn't allowed creative thinking or freedom of individuality. While I am happy with what parts I've been born with, I'm also happy to know that it does not define a person. A person shouldn't be limited to such that makes up who they are just by if they've got a penis or a vagina. Those are just minor things in which play a part of the reproductive system and shouldn't interfere much of their own thoughts and realizations. We're all humans, we're all different and I think it's about damn time we accept everyone's differences for what it is, instead of what it is not.
You seriously failed to grasp the concepts in the video. Gender is not about being a man or a woman, it's about your level of masculinity and femininity and how that informs your view of yourself and the world. Sure there are some people who exist at 100% masculine and 0% feminine, and the vice versa but they are rare. Pretty much every guy you meet will have some feminine traits, and pretty much every woman you meet has masculine ones, this does not make them less a man or woman.
Thank you so much for what you do and for working so hard to bring light to a topic that many people seem to naturally avoid and find awkward. I'm a fairly androgynous person who identifies as third gender but I've only recently become comfortable with telling people that. Having the Genderbread Person and other tools from your website have been invaluable. I can't wait to read your book! Much love. P.S. "Can we get some gender neutral bathrooms up in this piece!" :)
This is a great Tedx talk. As someone who has recently (past ten years) experienced teachers teaching the stereotypical boy/girl. And I’ve always been against it. Everyone should be in my opinion.
"back to reality" how ironic
This was interesting i like the rhyming in this it made it funny
I was born as a de facto male sort of something, in other words intersex. In addition to male parts I have female bits. Even though most of those female bits were removed over my life time. The one female bit that couldn't be removed was that part between my ears. So I spent the majority of my life trying to be a male, I've even been married for most of my adult life. Fortunately my spouse accepts me for who I am because she saw first hand the pain I suffered from all the surgeries and the chemotherapy from a form of testicular/ovarian cancer. She has seen me cry and cry in pain. Not just physical pain but emotional pain too.
I really embrace the TED speech with all my spirit.
Which intersex condition do you have?
@@MarinaUgandaCancer is a condition, intersex is not...but unfortunately it's made out to be one by society.
And along similar lines, would you therefore say homosexuality is a condition too (a 'fault' that needs 'fixing')...like having cancer, like being intersex?
Not every difference is a pathology.
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@@MarinaUgandaWhichever one it isn't, at least it's not ignorance.
Truth is important and it shall be revealed eventually.
The modern Dr. Seuss. I was wondering if he was doing that on purpose. So glad it was part of it. :D
According to the " gender ideology ", teaching female behaviors to a girl is to impose an odious socially constructed stereotype , but teach them a boy is just help him express his natural tendencies. (Olavo de Carvalho
Cara em nenhum momento ele falou sobre ideologia de gênero, vc ao menos viu o vídeo até o final? Ideologia de gênero é besteira e vai contra tudo q o cara do video falou, vc ao menos sabe oq é ideologia de gênero? Bem, vc citou olavo de carvalho então eu acho q não
The analogy which follows the Shakespeare quotation ("All the world's a stage") is wonderful.
No, man is not an identity. Are you saying that a man that does not conform to gender norms is less of a man?
Can someone help me out? I don't understand why we continue to gender traits like this? Surely we all want to work towards a gender blind society rather than people with more traditionally feminine characteristics identifying as women and vice versa? Does this not solidify gender stereotypes and potentially opress people more?
exactly
wonderful! thank you for spreading knowledge :)
This is like when people would visit schools and rap about looking after the environment
I wish he was my gender studies professor, so witty, enthusiastic, funny and educational.
Gender fluidity is not about making boys girly or making girls masculine. That's just as bad as enforcing gender stereotypes. Not everyone is extremely masculine or extremly feminine. The pressure to conform to society's version of gender often means sacrificing abilities and strengths.
I am incredibly impressed by how he managed to make this rhyme so much
Thank you, my child is changing maybe I shouldn't say changing she is who she has always been and has now shared it with me. I'm so happy she has, so I have been doing as much research to understand all the complexities. So that I may be conscious of the things she goes through & others. So again Thank you for sharing such a wonderful talk!
Skycrystal Rain7 you're so inconsiderate. Why are you calling your little boy a girl? Shame on you as a parent to be so hurtful to your child.
my child was born a girl & is a girl she does not chose to change that. so why am I being inconsiderate to try & understand her changes.
The rhyming was the most amazing thing ever
No matter the gender presentation or identity, society can do without the perpetuation of homophobia, sexism, misogyny, racism, and classism. The separation of aesthetic and pathology is the key eradicating those social ills.
He actually listed a number of gender identities ... far more than the 2 we have now, and the one you seem to think he's advocating. And, he's talking about freedom of expression ... the freedom to express who we are, rather than who we are told to be.
3:14 OMG that beatboxing got me lol what a gem!
i have learned alot from this video even tho I don't agree
This is what you call ideology!
I'm so glad that this is being discussed
he's a wonderful presenter & I learned a lot from this
all the jerks on here need to stop bashing this video and this guy. I agree with everything he says. Gender and sexuality are not the same thing, they are separate. A man can identify as a woman and vice versa.
I won't bash the ideas but I'll bash the guy since he's an unapologetic plagiarist off the work of trans people for profit: storify.com/cisnormativity/the-genderbread-plagiarist
+Ghast the Otaku You seem woefully underinformed to be making such declarative statements. IF you'd like to know how things work, and are unwilling to look into it yourself, I'd be more than happy to tutor you. OR you can jsut continue to wallow in your ignorance. I really don't care. I just thought I'd offer.
I love makeup and hair and "feminine" things so much and I was assigned female at birth. but I dont feel like a girl I feel like I am more of a boy or neither. and I have short hair and I have a "man mind set" as some people like to say. but in general I am such a mix of feminine and masculine that some people get confused. so everyone just decides to call me she and act like I am a girl because that's what I was assigned and because it's easier for them because they would be confused. but they don't understand that just changing they way they treat me will make my life better and won't negatively effect their lives at all. I just wish from a young age people were taught about gender and respecting other people.
that is why i invented cookiegender. cookiegender is the sterotypical girly essence that we are fed though media and marketing, culture and toys. cookiegender "what are little girls made out of? sugar and spice and everything nice"
Reading the thoughts from the replies has been interesting.
I don't fully approach Killermann's notions, however they are needed at this time.
Why?
We need more awareness, more compassion. more laughter. more love.
Trolling on here about hating men is limitting.
I suggest you read his book and then come back with your discussion.
And please... spread the love, not the hate.
All is full of Love.
Isn't it how he aproached the subject?
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If you ditch the gender stereotypes, like most self-aware people do, there is no need to deny male or female as labels.
I need to watch this for an assignment and i cant even get through it
shout out to ms gilletes class
yoooo big up ms gilletes
So many opinions and facts being thrown around. I don't really know where I stand. I want people to be accepting. I want people to be themselves and be happy. There are problems with both sides presented. Traditional thinking and new age thinking are both flawed. Maybe we should present both options to kids and let them play with whatever toy or wear whatever color they like. Whatever will fix the suffering of confusion and feeling out of place will do. It should be addressed.
who else hear a ringing after he speaks
Anyone else here because of their sociology class?
If only this was available with subtitles on my first language... I would go through teacher to teacher in my school, or principal, or anyone with that kind of authority really, to ask them to show this in class. It'd be great. I could try to revoice this to my classmates during philosophy class, but apparently, it's not as easy to be taken seriously when you're a 15 year old girl, and a self proclaimed feminist.
There are already people identifying as "genderless dragons" and various animals. I dont think its healthy for the individuals or for society.
@@tubester4567 well that's rude and unnecessary. do us a favor: don't say anything. Because clearly you're incapable of keeping your hurtful opinions to yourself.
This warmed my ❤️
Thank you Sam. I found your talk to be enlightening and entertaining. Good job.
Good on you for sticking with this discussion for as long as you did.
We all need to open our minds, relearn and accept people as they are without pre judging. Very enlightening subject.
i have watched 100rds of videos and talked to so many on what gender identity is and all i can gather is your all taking something so simple and turning it into something so complicated that it has lost its meaning entirely and your now trying to redefine it all, for no reason. basically everyone is saying that male and female roles are wrong and no one should be confined to stereotype roles of birth, true. but from there, all these labels to define and categorize every single degree of expression of someone self identity is just overkill ridiculous self indulgence. if we just fight to kill the stereotype roles and make it norm to be and act and do as you please that makes you happy and in no way hurts or effects others negatively. these labels make no sense and just hurt everything. if your going to hate on me then move on, if your going to offer real advice then i will be grateful to listen and learn. thank you.
This is excellent.
He got the directors part correct and also about limits that society put on what people of certain gender can archive or should do.
“Negative, I am a meat popsicle”
Lol most of the people in the audience at the end were so confused. Nice
+KellySmith555 TH-cam won't let me reply to your comment but for someone who writes extremely long-winded arguments you seem to be in a bit of a hurry so I'll be brief... The things I'm saying are not my opinion. Google it, go to a library, and while you're at it, take a valium because you clearly can't handle much objection to anything you say.
I wonder the origins of a last name like "Killermann" haha
You're doing exactly what he's challenging in this video: conflating sex and gender.
I'm just here for the comments I don't give a damn either way
important and creative talk. well done, Sam
He should write about this in the style of Dr. Seuss
no actually he should give it up zero evidence and poorly structured and organized. painful to watch. damn take a publ;ic speech class or something, f'ing clueless presenter.
my dear!!!! my love!!!!! yes please gender neutral bathrooms im so uncomfortable at my school oh my god like do u even understand and like it really wouldnt hurt anyone to accomodate for the many trans and nonbinary teens at my highschool yes thank u
Please try regardless, if you think you can make a difference, even a small one do it, the world will be different after you do it, maybe it will be something small, but they will remember, maybe for someone it will be eye opening or it will prompt them to learn more about gender.
Here are the genders I know:
Agender, bigender, cisgender, demigirl, demigirl, female, genderfluid, genderflux, genderqueer, gender neutral, male, non binary, transgender, trigender. There are many more genders but those are the ones I can think of right now.
i think theres just too much for people to handle. cant we just say i dont feel this or that i just feel like myself?
No, there's male and female. That's it.
SundownTE thats biological sex. Gender maybe theres three.
***** That is not true. If that were true. People wouldnt say they are another gender when they are of another gender.
***** I am male on my profile...doesnt necessaryily mean I am male biologically. People do this sort of "fake" gendering a lot of the time
Some of these comments here are quite saddening, but perhaps not surprising. It just shows that for many people diversity does not stand next to integration or acceptance of differences. Nice to see some of the supportive comments. Clever way of presenting with the rhymes, well done Sam.
brilliant
having multiple identities and integrating them into one is a positive attribute?
Seems to be the thing that creates the internal fight and thoughts of suicide along with societies input.
@@DestinyWatson Everyone has "multiple" identities, that doesn't make them suicidal.
*Yes.*
i present feminine, so people assume i'm a woman...i am not, i am not any gender, i am me
my only critique is transsexual isn't a gender. and transvestite is a slur term, it's not an identity.
I define myself by my personnality, my accomplishements, my nationality.. Why does gender has to be such a big deal? If you don't feel right in your skin go to a psychologist that'll help you know yourself and live your life...
as justlikeabee said, do it anyway, there is a good chance that sharing these ideas can save someone's life.
"penises don't change" you sure about that
I enjoyed this. Thank you.
Sorry, i meant gender identity, not gender expression.
He misinterprets the meaning of Shakespeare's famous words. It is not about how people force you to play a role in life. It's about how life happens in stages from infancy to old age. Why is what we think more real than what is in reality? Does he want a doctor to treat him as a male or female? It makes a difference...
How exactly did he disparage traditional masculinity? If you can make that argument, then we can easily say traditional femininity was attacked as well. In any case, he seemed to be neutral regarding each end of the spectrum (or spectrums as he put it).
Well done. I appreciate the use of rhythm and rhyme as a way to help us retain and recall this important information.
thank you!
15:51 In fact most I'm a male, and tend to do mostly manly stuff, and some feminine things, mostly when it comes to learning useful skills. But in my experience the people who were the worse at making it hard for my to be more open empathetic caring emotional and feminine were not who I would have suspected in every case it's been women my age that give me the most trouble. And in the past they have exploited that. So in fact I don't think masculinity as most see it, were feelings are rarely descused and certain activity's are avoided is not because they are backward and brutish as all the liberal post modern feminists and academics claim, it's wisdom that has been passed down from father to son as an insurance policy from the manipulations of women on a mans feelings, and the massive destructive power they wield over him.
My gender identity manifests itself in the form of wearing diapers, pretending to by a baby and messing in them. Gender identity is about what you want to be. And it's real because science have shown we have different brains to cis gender people but that doesn't mean we're insane it just means we have a fluidity of gender expressions.
Great video, and I understand the topic is vast, but why isn't sex (humping, non humping and the others) addressed?
It's not the exception tho, everyone has both masculine and feminine qualities. The way I see it, masculinity and femininity have very little to do with someones gender identity. If sex was such a concrete metric as you say it is, there wouldn't be as many surgeries on newborns as there are now. Guessing doesn't seem all that concrete to me. Forcing some men to live as women and some women to live as men, just so people can't "trick themselves" into transition doesn't sound healthy to me at all.
Awesome!! such valued info for my study... Keep a it Sam!!
I think I don't quite get it yet. Shouldn't there be no genders at all instead of many many different ones? If gender defines an outline that we have to fit in (play by the script) but we feel bad while doing it because not everybody alligns with that script, that's destructive and bad for the personal development. That's why we move away from just male and female, right? I don't have to be manly all the time, like the speaker said, just because I have a penis. But if we have many different genders defined, don't we still define the roles people should fit in? Shouldn't we theoretically have a unique gender for everybody then that changes all the time depending on the development of the individual or just abolish gender alltogether?
A reminder of why there exists a TED"x", for irrational lectures nobody takes seriously.
Can you really toss aside the idea of biological sex that much? Out of the three, that was treated as the least important, and was pretty much narrowed down to specifically genetalia. There are more biological sex factors than reproductive organs, right? I mean a huge difference is the psychological set up and behavioral predispositions between men and women. That plays a massive amount into who people grow up to be, no matter if they are taught that or if they simply experience their own biological tendencies.
I identify myself as cream cheese that may expire in the next 3 days if no one puts me back on the fridge
This is great, and needs more views.
Poetic genius ⛲⛲🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
I noticed the rhyming,, I thought I was crazy,, XD
Great stuff! Had me thinking a lot about gender expression.
Yes I’m showing this to my family when I come out to them as non-binary
Edit: welp I didn’t get accepted. o o p s-
edit ✨two✨: i figured myself out! :D im demiboy but also femboy! hehe new name go brrrr i go by Chris now!
sorry keep your head up be yourself surround yourself with people who love and accept you
lol
Aaaaaand we all know that feeling of utter disappointment when we relize that we might have just been trans but were denying it right? Hope we do!! I am in so much pain QwQ
typical - they know nothing and blind to truth
@@ventishoodiealt im taking this gender and communication class in school and i have learned alot and im still learning sometimes people will just stay close minded and that isn't your fault you are who you are it is your life take it and do as you please and want screw who ever doesn't agree with you they aren't the one's who have to walk in your shoes
Did you listen to what he said? Because what you say he said is pretty much the opposite of what he actually said.
It's not black and white, it's a damn rainbow! You don't know where one color starts and the other ends, they're fluid, but can't exist w/out the other. :D
I'm keen on checking out this book as well.
Bright, funny, and well done. Made me question which parts of me are masculine and feminine.
i know this is 6 years late but you could take a test to figure it out i have a link to it if you want
I love this so much
I absolutely adore this. Not only because he goes on to prove how a lot of societies are scared of difference and what it "may" bring. But what will actually come of freedom of thought about this sort of stuff? Change, equality, creativeness? Or some people not understanding- but we don't know because society hasn't allowed creative thinking or freedom of individuality.
While I am happy with what parts I've been born with, I'm also happy to know that it does not define a person. A person shouldn't be limited to such that makes up who they are just by if they've got a penis or a vagina. Those are just minor things in which play a part of the reproductive system and shouldn't interfere much of their own thoughts and realizations. We're all humans, we're all different and I think it's about damn time we accept everyone's differences for what it is, instead of what it is not.
I am looking forward to receiving my copy of Sam's book. He really hits the nail on its multifarious heads :-)
This is the guy who started the genderbread person idea.
Wow
This guy is great ;D
Ima give you deez nuts
the stuff he says is so fucking true!
Lets be real, this guy need to see a psychiatrist. But yeah, he is a great orator.
Why would he need to see a psychiatrist?
seriously though loved this talk, great ideas
Something about his voice and the way he talks is just so annoying. This was painful to watch
You seriously failed to grasp the concepts in the video. Gender is not about being a man or a woman, it's about your level of masculinity and femininity and how that informs your view of yourself and the world. Sure there are some people who exist at 100% masculine and 0% feminine, and the vice versa but they are rare. Pretty much every guy you meet will have some feminine traits, and pretty much every woman you meet has masculine ones, this does not make them less a man or woman.
If he were a woman, this talk would have to so many negative comments.
Let's just be glad it doesn't. Regardless of his gender.
Thank you so much for what you do and for working so hard to bring light to a topic that many people seem to naturally avoid and find awkward. I'm a fairly androgynous person who identifies as third gender but I've only recently become comfortable with telling people that. Having the Genderbread Person and other tools from your website have been invaluable. I can't wait to read your book! Much love. P.S. "Can we get some gender neutral bathrooms up in this piece!" :)
The rhyming in this video is beyond perfect. I loved how seamlessly he added that to his presentation.
More like he rehersed it really really hard.
This is a great Tedx talk. As someone who has recently (past ten years) experienced teachers teaching the stereotypical boy/girl. And I’ve always been against it. Everyone should be in my opinion.
it's a TEDx talk, it is not an actual TED talk
(Honest question here) How so?