A good question to ask is why or if everything in the world is binary or not binary. This is a potentially confusing terminology, so let’s start small.
Say you have an apple and an orange. Is the existence of the apple binary? Is the existence of the orange binary? This seems like a silly or even stupid question. How can a fruit, an object, be binary?
When we think of binary we often think of it in terms of pairings. For example, in the hotly contested gender space, “nonbinary” is a popular word that assumes the opting out of the traditional binary gender structure of male and female. The traditional gender hierarchy basically assumes that everyone is either male or female, and thus presents a binary structure. We see that with how LGBTQ+ has developed over the years, however, that out traditional assumption may be flawed. People are more multifaceted than can be expressed by two choices, and we as a society have grown so much, flourished, and thrived by embracing this very multifaceted nature of every person rather than putting them into a box.
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