Colonialism invented the gender binary
We all know it’s true. Before whitey arrived, all pre-colonial cultures were inclusive genderqueer paradises where undifferentiated folx blissed around in a rainbow haze. All chores were shared out equally among the folx, perhaps by drawing lots, or a nice game of Ip, Dip, Who’s It. All folx were equal, but at the same time, they were diverse. Occasionally a folx would squat to deliver a theyby, but this event was not followed by any coercive assignation of sex.
Then in about, ooh, 1500, or maybe 1800, don’t expect me to remember details, whitey turned up, with his firestick and his bible and his vests, and spoiled everything. Whitey pointed his firestick at the folx, and forced them to line up along a spectrum with dingly-dangly tummy banana folx at one end and neat-and-tidy, no dingly-dangly at the other. Then whitey used his firestick to indicate a dividing line at a point somewhere mid-spectrum and presto, the folx were cisnormatively sorted into two entirely arbitrary categories, and the binary was created.
So what happened after that? Well, the folx who had been on one side of the arbitrarily imposed firestick dividing line noticed that they tended to be the ones who bled from their neat-and-tidy, no dingly-dangly, and got sent off to cold, smoky huts to bleed in. And that even before the menstrual hut business began, they tended to be sent to fetch water, or made to sit and stir the cooking pots, and look after other folx’s theybies. And they were the ones who ended up squatting and delivering the theybies.
And the folx who had been on the other side of the arbitrarily imposed firestick dividing line said, well, it makes perfect sense, what with their funny moods, and their peculiar bleeding habits, and the weird and frankly disturbing way they can squat down and pop out a theyby.
And what did whitey do? Well, he smiled a little smile under his moustache. Because he knew that now he had invented the gender binary, and that some of the folx had seen the logic of it, that it would never go away again. And that the rainbow land of inclusivity and diversivity and equalitivity would become a dream, as though it had never really existed.