Genderflux vs. Genderfluid
So I’ve been trying to think of a way to explain genderflux to people, because it is very similar to genderfluid. And I think I’ve figured out a way. It’s a long post, but there’s not a ton of words.
Imagine you have a lamp. Let’s say it’s an orange light. This light can be dimmed. You put the dimmer into this position:
and the light in the room is very bright. It’s very very orange in the room.
Now the dimmer is in this position:
the light in the room is still orange, just not as bright.
You put the dimmer into this postilion:
and again, the light is still orange, it’s just very very dim, with possibly no visible light.
A genderflux persons gender doesn’t change to a different gender, just shifts in intensity. Their gender can get stronger (brighter) or weaker (dimmer) but the gender itself doesn’t change.
A genderfluid person’s gender would change. In this analogy, the color of the light would change. It’s switch would look like this:
It could change to any color there. At one time, they may be yellow, the next blue, then purple, orange the next. Most genderfluid don’t shift to every single gender ever, so what “colors” the “light” changes to varies for each person. Maybe they just shift between green and blue. They might not really have a scale between their genders either, it might be an immediate switch (pun not intended).
Someone who is fluidflux shifts in both “color” and “brightness”. They may at one time feel like a dim magenta, but then feel a really bright spring green, and then a moderate teal. The “lamp” would have both the “knob” and the “dimmer”
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