The reason why I have a problem with typically radfems + “gender criticals” talking about the “3rd gender” in not white cultures and them simply labeling the genders as misogynistic-caused (aka them implying that the gender is for women) and or homophobia-caused (aka them implying that the gender is for men) is that they truly do not understand that you cannot put western labels on non-western concepts bc it’s just mislabeling at best and colonialism at worst.
There are simply concepts that cannot exist in western colonialism and that includes genders outside of man or woman. These genders that existed before western colonialism cannot be applied to the binary or can even be called non-binary as the western man-woman gender binary SIMPLY DIDN’T EXIST FOR THE CULTURE AT THE TIME.
TLDR: Stop applying the western man-woman gender binary to cultural genders. Just stop. Decolonize while you’re ahead.
Yes and westerners, stop interpreting pre-colonial non-western gender forms that are different from the western binary as “homophobic” or “misogynic” and therefore “backward” and therefore western colonialism brought a positive aspect in these societies through erasing such “harmful” traditions. And stop using these kinds of half-truths and misinterpretations to prove how “woke” you are in saying pre-colonial non-western societies didn’t have to be perfect to deserve to be left alone, that western colonialism is still bad even if it brought nice changes to these “bad” socieites. This doesn’t make you look woke at all.
Also, stop saying things like the concept gender and sexual orientation was invented by the west. This highly specific european form of gender, the only one of which you happen know, was invented by the west.