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[gender-jargon]

You don't still believe in the gender trinary, do you?

I’ve never “believed in” a gender trinary, as it’s just as restrictive and reductive as a gender binary or any other -arity. However, a lot of terminology and concepts, mine and others, reference the concept of -arity either directly or indirectly, so I discuss it as a facet of my definitions and elaborations since the idea of a binary and trinary are so pervasive. I am not advocating for any sort of “true” or inherently valid systemic -arity; there isn’t one. Hell, even those who do believe in a gender trinary can’t agree on what it specifically entails. So, please do not conflate encyclopedic writing about gender, which can include a discussion of -arity, for me advocating for or validating said system. On this blog, I talk a lot about gender theory, and sometimes that involves theorizing about the specifics of broken, unrealistic categorical systems. A good example of this would be my coining of the term “Trinteri”, a gender that exists admist the gender trinary. Here, a question was posed and I offered an answer because I thought it was an interesting question—plain and simple.

Beyond theory for theory’s sake, the practical reason I discuss -arity is because we live in a society that heavily fixates on it and we need language to talk about it because it effects us all. -arity designations allow us to talk about specific genders in relation to the binary/trinary that we are forcibly subjected to. That’s where their usefulness and functionality begins and ends, as far as I am concerned: discussions about exorsexism as it relates to -arity. For example, when I say an identity is considered “atrinary”, the purpose isn’t to force people into a new box or create a hierarchy of objective legitimization, but to specifically describe the relationship a gendered concept has with the gender binary/trinary— an oppressive concept.

Many, many people believe that “nonbinary” is a monolithic third gender that can be reduced to being “neither” (or none), with acceptable modes of expression being restricted to androgyny and gender-neutrality. The concept of a trinary is indeed becoming systemic and societal, albeit secondary to the more common, conservative, traditional and pervasive gender binary. It is the product of an attempt to move away from a binaristic point of view, but still falls short due to its reductive nature. Despite this, it has entered relatively common usage, even within the LGBT+ community. Both are palpable, both are culturally ingrained in different ways and to different degrees and both are bad for their own reasons, some of which overlap. I can provide examples and elaborate on any part of this if desired.

We must have a way to discuss oppression in concise terms. An issue can arise when it’s used to bolster the validity an identity due to proximity to the gender binary, which is a misuse of this language. If you can offer alternative terminology that can accomplish the same thing as well or better, I would be interested in reading about it.

Lastly, the tone of this ask is condescending and accusatory. Making an assumption about my stances, getting upset about it and then sending me this ask isn’t conducive to meaningful conversation. Stop projecting. I use this verbiage to streamline conversations about exorsexism and to discuss gender theory. If you used to believe in a gender trinary and used these terms as gender identities and personal descriptors, that’s your blunder, not mine. If you want to talk about this, send me another ask communicating your concerns and I will address them.

- Gent

[gender-jargon]

hi! i'm trying to track something down, so i was wondering: did you coin linproche? (A gender expression that is androgynous, despite a gender identity that is not.) i can't find it sourced anywhere but an archived link of the catalog on gender-resource haha

Hey there! Yep, that was me!

[gender-jargon]

Hello! Are you okay with your flag designs being shared with the Internet Archive? I don't want to break any of your boundaries.

@the-queer-archive

Hey anon, thanks for sending me this ask. I’m totally fine with that. :-)

- Gent

[gender-jargon]

Did you coin binarine? (binary gender quality)

Hey anon!

Yes, I did coin binarine sometime ago.

- Gent

[PT: - Gent ./. End PT]

[arcopluris]

About gender panitude:

I see many pangender folx stole culturally specific genders whose cultures they did not belong to. At least more specifically before 2012 or some point where many terms got resignified or redefined, fairly.

I saw a definition from Radical Fairies and it said "all sexes".

But I use it to mean an infinite gender. Which is also innumerable, unquantifiable, unachievable (without transhumanism/immanence), includes other non finite aspects (such as transfinite/phantom quantities/complex numbers)…

That's a mathematical way to express it, immaterially or metaphorically.

People usually slap omnigender, omnine, or polygender and say pangender identity should be abolished/cancelled. Or offer alternatives: maxigender, ultigender… I'd like infinigender be more popular.

Once @gender-jargon explained well the concept of infinity with a video, but it got down 😞

I also coined apangender/pxngender (originally panagender but panagender had a different definition before) bc I'm demiagender.

They're all disproportionate. Like yeah the pangender symbol, from @espectrometria-nao-binaria that looks like this: 🜧 (a fusion of ⟨🜦⟩ copper antimoniate salt and ⟨🜹⟩ or ⟨⚹⟩ sal-ammoniac) but replacing the cross (alluding gender femaleness) with androgyne symbol (⚦), includes an agender symbol inside.

There are obliquities/parallelisms that I generalize making it insoluble, like different planes or places different things or PoVs. Like yeah I'm what you see, but I have obscure parts you don't know that others know. But the others also don't know some other parts either, neither I as some things are in the future, it's rhizomatic (from the philosophal concept). And it's always changing how I perceive and some things go to the other side of the spectrum. In fact I don't mind being summed up as neufemasc. Bc neotrinarists give me these options and in their minds they are the only existing possibilities for a trigender.

[gender-jargon]

If I remember correctly, the video you are referencing was this one (link) [PT: this one (link) ./. End PT], "How To Count Past Infinity" by Vsauce.

— Gent

[PT: -- Gent ./. End PT]

[gender-jargon]

[Image ID: a redesign of the Panea flag by Gent (Gender-Jargon). The Panea flag consists of five horizontal stripes of the same size. From top to bottom, the stripes are light yellow, off-white, peach, light lavender and charcoal grey. ./. End ID]

Panea: a poingender identity involving identification with all non-binary genders within one's experience; a poingender identity encompassing all personally accessible genders except either of the binary genders.

[PT: Panea: a poingender identity involving identification with all non-binary genders within one's experience; a poingender identity encompassing all personally accessible genders except either of the binary gender. ./. End PT]

Also called Panenby.

[PT: Also called Panenby ./. End PT]

Etymology

[PT: Etymology ./. End PT]

From Greek, "Pan-", meaning "all" + the Latin suffix "-ea", indicating that an item is made from a material; literally "Made of All". Coined anonymously in an ask sent to tumblr user ask-pride-color-schemes in January 2018 (link) [PT: Coined anonymously in an ask sent to tumblr user ask-pride-color-schemes in January 2018. ./. End PT].

Elaboration

[PT: Elaboration ./. End PT]

Panea is an identity that encompasses all genders available to any individual, but specifically excluding binary Male and binary Female genders. In other words, Panea describes a gender experience involving all personally accessible non-binary gender identities, but neither of the binary genders.

Panea is everything except binary.

Pride Flag

[PT: Pride Flag ./. End PT]

I created the first Panea flag on my old blog (link), Gender-Resource, before it was terminated. [PT: I created the first Panea flag on my old blog (link), Gender-Resource, before it was terminated. ./. End PT]

Looking at it now, I find my old pride flag for Panea to be somewhat unappealing. This lead me to redesign the pride flag with the hope that this design comes out better.

This redesigned flag is meant to better integrate the Pangender and Non-Binary pride flags. I also adjusted the colors a bit to make it more harmonious. This pride flag consists of five horizontal stripes of the same size. From top to bottom, the stripes are light yellow, off-white, peach, light lavender and charcoal grey. The stripe's coloration holds no specific meaning beyond being derived from both the Pangender and the Nonbinary pride flags.

[ghostcompliance]

Nymhs (noun. nym) - A gender which exists but is nebulous or undefined.

Coined 12/2015 by Selkey Aliénrive (@xelortrash or @shaleselkies​)

Nymhs, derived from both nimbus and nebula, refers to a gender which exists but is nebulous in nature - definitely present but indistinct and unable to be defined in any more exact light. Drawing from this meaning the flag is loosely based off of Saturn and colors often seen associated with space, nebulousness, or lack of form. (fun fact: it can also be seen to resemble a stage of the formation of a protostar from a nebula but that’s less commonly known)

Also aiming to reduce ‘othering’ and increase accessibility to children in particular this gender can be referred to using both the adjective form ‘nymhs’ (e.g. ‘I identify as nymhs’ or ‘a nymhs individual’) and the noun form of ‘nym’ (e.g. 'I’m a nym’) in the same way one may say either 'I identify as female’ or 'I am a girl’.

The original flag is the first listed, the other two are alternative versions - the first as I was unsure if the first had enough contrast in it and the second as a version which better encompassed the nature of the identity itself.

[gender-jargon]

I've always really loved this term, so I wanted to offer my own take on a simplified version of it's flag:

[Image ID: a simplified Nymhs flag made by Gent (Gender-Jargon). The flag consists of five horizontal stripes, all of equal size, except the middle stripe, which is thinner than the others. From top to bottom, the stripes are orange, pink, ivory, purple and blue. ./. End ID]

The colors are picked from the original flags above, with an added white stripe to serve as an allusion to the coiner's fun fact about star formation.

— Gent

[PT: -- Gent ./. End PT]

[gender-jargon]

[Image ID: The Mefeille pride flag by Gent (Gender-Jargon). The flag consists of five horizontal stripes of the same size. From top to bottom, the stripes are dark aquamarine, desaturated chartreuse, off-white, light brown and brick red. ./. End ID]

Mefeille: a Femil-Melle bigender identity.

[PT: Mefeille: a Femil-Melle bigender identity. ./. End PT]

Etymology

[PT: Etymology ./. End PT]

A portmanteau of Melle and Femil, using both "Me" and "Fe" from Melle and Femil, suffixed with a combination of "-elle" and "-il" endings, producing the ending "-eille". Melle and Femil was coined by tumblr user pastelroswell (link) in or before February 2019 [PT: coined by tumblr user pastelroswell (link) in or before February 2019 -Jargon./. End PT]. Mefeille was coined by Gent (Gender-Jargon) in July 2024.

Elaboration

[PT: Elaboration ./. End PT]

Mefeille describes a Melle-Femil bigender identity; a Mefeille is both Melle and Femil. It is a miderian gender that is MAIN, FEIN, nofemasc, nomafem and potentially other gender alignments.

Melle describes one who is a fem-aligned, non-masculine man/male; Femil describes one who is a masc-ailgned, non-feminine woman/female. As a Melle, one may have other alignments which are non-masculine. As a Femil, one may have other alignments which are non-feminine. A Mefeille may have both and/ or neither of these alignments.

Mefeille is a multigender of Melle and Femil. Mefeille can be used to describe one who is a masc-aligned, non-fem woman who may have other non-fem alignments relating to their Femil identity as well as a fem-aligned, non-masc man who may have other non-masc alignment relating to their Melle identity.

A Mefeille may be both Melle and Femil simultaneously, fluidly or in some sort of combination with one another.

Pride Flag

[PT: Pride Flag ./. End PT]

The Mefeille pride flag was created at the same time as the word by the coiner (Gent, GJ, 7/24). The Mefeille flag was made to accompany my other Femil and Melle flag redesigns (link) [PT: my other Femil and Melle flag redesigns (link) ./. End PT].

The Mefeille flag consists of five horizontal stripes of the same size. From top to bottom, the stripes are dark aquamarine, desaturated chartreuse, off-white, light brown and brick red. The Mefeille flag is intended to draw from both the Melle and Femil flag design linked above. The stripes of the following meanings:

The dark aquamarine stripe represents maleness.

The desaturated chartreuse stripe represents non-masc, feminine-alignment (nomafem-aligned).

The off-white stripe represents non-masculine and non-feminine gender alignments.

The light brown stripe represents non-fem, masculine-alignment (nofemasc-aligned).

The brick red stripe represents femaleness.

[PT: The dark aquamarine stripe represents maleness. The desaturated chartreuse stripe represents non-masc, feminine-alignment (nomafem-aligned). The off-white stripe represents non-masculine and non-feminine gender alignments. The light brown stripe represents non-fem, masculine-alignment (nofemasc-aligned). The brick red stripe represents femaleness. ./. End PT]

[momma-mogai-sphinx]

Melle & Femil

I don’t believe there are currently any flag designs for Melle and Femil (terms coined by @pastelmemer), so I decided to give it a try.

Femil - A gender term for females who have no alignment towards femininity, and instead have a masculine alignment, with or without the existence of other nonfeminine alignments too.

Melle - A gender term for males who have no alignment towards masculinity, and instead have a feminine alignment, with or without the existence of other nonmasculine alignments too.

Simple meanings for a simple design: The pinks represent femininity/femaleness while the blues represent masculinity/maleness and the white and shades of orange are for any other possible alignments.

HQ Downloads: (1) (2)

——

If you have any problems with either of these flag designs, please let me know. I may take the post down & will certainly do my best to correct the issue.🦋

[gender-jargon]

I've always loved the terms Melle and Femil, so I wanted to offer my own take on pride flags for each. On the left is the alternate Melle flag, and on the right, the alternate Femil flag.

[Image ID: an alternate Melle and Femil pride by Gent (Gender-Jargon). Both flags consists of five horizontal stripes of the same size. On the left is the Melle flag. From top to bottom, the stripes are desaturated pink, dark peach, off-white, aqua and indigo. On the right is the Femil flag. From top to bottom, the stripes are steel blue, tan, off-white, rose and plum. ./. End ID]

— Gent

[PT: -- Gent ./. End PT]

[pride-color-schemes]

Mutare, Mutaregender

Mutare or Mutaregender: A fluid gender in which the person never feels like they experience the same gender twice, their gender is always changing and evolving.

Term coined by: Unknown

[image description: a flag with eleven stripes. the fourth and eighth stripes are three times as wide as one of the other stripes. from top to bottom they are: pink, pink-orange, dark pink, white, purple-blue, purple, orange, black, teal, blue, dark purple. a ripple effect has been applied to the flag, so all the colors swirl into each other]

Full size [Here]

[image description: same as above, but with no ripple effect]

Full size [Here]

Designed by: Me

Color meanings: The genderfluid design as a base, but with extra colored stripes to symbolize the ever-changing nature of this gender.

Full pride gallery HERE! FAQ and “dictionary” of genders, orientations, and other related terms HERE. Send any questions to Ask-Pride-Color-Schemes!

[gender-jargon]

I made an alternate, simplified design for the Mutare flag. The colors are picked from the original flag and adjusted a bit:

[Image ID: a redesigned Mutare pride flag originally designed by tumblr user Pride-Color-Schemes and redesigned by Gent (Gender-Jargon). The flag is a variation upon the Genderfluid pride flag. The flag consists of five horizontal stripes of the same size, with a white circle in the center. In the middle of the circle is an image of a black colored whirl, which has eight arms curving right. From top to bottom, the colors of the stripes are scarlet, off-white, indigo, charcoal grey and teal. ./. End ID]

I used a spiraling, whirling shape to represent a moving, ever-changing and evolving gender identity; it is flowing, fluid, perpetual and never the same thing twice. It is meant to be comparable to the rippled flag, but more simple and replicable. The stripes were picked from the Genderfluid pride flag, but shifted to reflect the gender's shifting, varying nature.

— Gent

[PT: -- Gent ./. End PT]

[feralkin]

New Term

Certfluid: A gender that is always fluid between the same genders. It can be as many or as few as an individual feels. Flag:

 @uncommongenders promo this please?

[gender-jargon]

I like the Certfluid flag a lot, but the bright cyan and yellow hurts my eyes. Here's a more saturated edit I made of the flag:

[Image ID: a saturated edit of the Certfluid pride flag designed user feralkin (inactive), edited by Gent (Gender-Jargon). The flag is made up of four horizontal stripes of the same size. From top to bottom, the colors are aqua, yellow, off-white and lavender. ./. End ID]

I'm not all that great at isolating and transferring or (re-)rendering imagery, so I wasn't able to produce a clean edit of the pride flag including the symbol made by the coiner. Maybe someone with more skill may be able to do so.

— Gent

[PT: -- Gent ./. End PT]

[keikothebat]

This is my ergender flag which I designed over on my DA. :3

[gender-resource]

Flag by keikothebat

Ergender: A little bit boy, a little bit girl, a little bit nonbinary, and the rest of your identity is something else.

[gender-jargon]

Tumblr/DA user Keikothebat/Technologyfurs created the first Ergender flag in 2018. I love the flag, but I felt the colors might be easier to distinguish with some adjustment.

The coining of the term is sometimes attributed to tumblr user arigenderdefender, but I can't find any sort of coining post by the user. I did, however, find what I think may be the Ergender coining post, which was made by tumblr user autisticakemihomura in 2014 (link) [PT: made by tumblr user austisticakemihomura in 2014 (link. ./. End PT]. The post has now been archived on the Wayback Machine so it will not be lost.

— Gent

[PT: - Gent ./. End PT]

[gender-jargon]

[Image ID: The Revela pride flag by Gent (Gender-Jargon). The pride flag consists of nine horizontal stripes of the same size. From top to bottom, the stripes are navy blue, indigo, teal, light yellow, grey, light yellow, teal, indigo and navy blue. ./. End ID]

Revela: a gender identity related to self-exploration.

[PT: Revela: a gender identity related to self-exploration. ./. End PT]

Etymology

[PT: Etymology ./. End PT]

From English, "Revelation", shortened to "Revela". Coined by Gent (Gender-Jargon), June 2024.

The root word "revelation" was chosen based upon the many revelations that occur in the process of self-exploration; becoming informed of that self-exploration is an option, the realization that one desires to explore oneself, the journey one takes when exploring oneself, the things that one learns about oneself while on said journey and what that ultimately means to oneself.

Elaboration

[PT: Elaboration ./. End PT]

Revela is an atrinary, outherine/diastine gender identity. Revela can be considered autonomine, autoine, rahuine and/or quesinine depending on the individual.

For a Revela individual, self-exploration is an essential experience, highly central to one's identity, heavily involved in one's concept of their gender and often a perpetual pursuit. Revela can be used to describe anyone who considers self-exploration to be a gendered experience.

Simply, Revela is a gender about getting to know oneself and all that it entails. Revela is similar to Alithix and Rahugender, but with some differences:

Alithix is about the pursuit of authenticity. Rahugender is about self-actualization. Revela is about self-exploration. All three of these can significantly overlap, but ultimately, each are distinct.

Alithix is about being true to yourself, Rahugender is about becoming one's "best" self and Revela is about finding out who you are.

Pride Flag

[PT: Pride Flag ./. End PT]

The pride flag was created at the same time as the term by myself (Gent, GJ, 6/24). The pride flag consists of nine horizontal stripes of the same size. From top to bottom, the stripes are navy blue, indigo, teal, light yellow, grey, light yellow, teal, indigo and navy blue. The colors have the following meanings:

The navy blue stripes represents unknowability, mystery, boundless infinity and questions without answers.

The indigo stripes represents the vast frontier of the unexplored, knowledge that is not yet known and life's secrets.

The teal stripe represents the spirit of investigation, the act of learning, unfamiliarity and personal development.

The light yellow stripes represents burning curiosity, motivation, introspection and the process of questioning oneself.

The grey stripe represents the self.

[PT: The navy blue stripes represents unknowability, mystery, boundless infinity and questions without answers. The indigo stripes represents the vast frontier of the unexplored, knowledge that is not yet known and life's secrets. The teal stripe represents the spirit of investigation, the act of learning, unfamiliarity and personal development. The light yellow stripes represents burning curiosity, motivation, introspection and the process of questioning oneself. The grey stripe represents the self. ./. End PT]

The pride flag has it's stripes arranged so that the stripe representing oneself is central, with each stripe radiating away from the center symbolizing the journey of self-exploration.

[gender-jargon]

[Image ID: The Teratid pride flag by Gent (Gender-Jargon). The flag consists of five horizontal stripes of the same size. From top to bottom the stripes are olive green, light yellow, off-white, peach and brown. ./. End ID]

Teratid: a gender identity related to the rejection and subversion of (prevailing) beauty standards.

[PT: Teratid: a gender identity related to the rejection and subversion of (prevailing) beauty standards. ./. End PT]

Etymology

[PT: Etymology ./. End PT]

From English, "Terat-", meaning "Monstrous" + "-id", a Latin suffix meaning "pertaining to" in the concept of taxonomy. Coined by Gent (Gender-Jargon), June 2024.

The etymology of the term is a reference to how a lack of conformity to beauty standards is deeply punished, portrayed as evil, frightening and inhuman. It seeks to reclaim the idea that the subversion of beauty as "monstrous".

Teratid is a noun (Ex: "I am a Teratid"). The adjective form of is "teratine" (Ex: "My gender is teratine").

Elaboration

[PT: Elaboration ./. End PT]

Teratid is an atrinary, outherine gender identity. Additionally, it is a ringender, genoingender, ketuine and a type of genderfuckery (subversive in nature). Some may also experience it as an autonomous gender, reclingender and/or quingender. Teratid can also be a diastine gender identity.

Teratid is a broad label that encompasses the infinitely vast expressions that undermine societal beauty standards. Though Teratid experience is varied, all are unified by a rejection of common notions of beauty, a lack of conformance to the prescriptions of societal beauty standards and an active spirit of "fuckery" involved in the disruption and undermining of the oppressive standards contained within "beauty" as it is commonly known. It can involve the reclamation of monstrosity associated with the transgression of beauty standards, but it doesn't have to.

Beauty standards vary across time, society and culture. If the rejection and subversion of prevailing beauty standards in one's time period, society and culture is a gendered expression, it can be described as "Tertid".

With this in mind, there are many, many ways a Teratid individual go about subverting standards of beauty. Some examples include, but are not limited to:

embracing, celebrating and incorporating one's own physical, bodily traits that are not validated by prevailing beauty standards into their expression of their gender, whatever those may be.

embracing, celebrating and incorporating the concept of beauty within another culture that is accessible to the individual into their expression of their gender which conflicts with prevailing beauty standards in the society in which they live.

embracing, celebrating and incorporating the concept of beauty within a subculture in which the individuals participates into their expression of their gender which conflicts with prevailing standards of beauty in the society in which they live.

expressions of gender non-conformity and genderfuckery carried out with the intention of subverting beauty standards.

rejecting prescribed beauty standards, instead embracing their own sense of beauty and what it entails.

deliberate aesthetic homeliness, dreadfulness, obscenity, eeriness, wickedness, repulsiveness and grotesqueness as a gendered expression.

[PT: embracing, celebrating and incorporating one's own physical, bodily traits that are not validated by prevailing beauty standards into their expression of their gender, whatever those may be. embracing, celebrating and incorporating the concept of beauty within another culture that is accessible to the individual into their expression of their gender which conflicts with prevailing beauty standards in the society in which they live. embracing, celebrating and incorporating the concept of beauty within a subculture in which the individuals participates into their expression of their gender which conflicts with prevailing standards of beauty in the society in which they live. expressions of gender non-conformity and genderfuckery carried out with the intention of subverting beauty standards. rejecting prescribed beauty standards, instead embracing their own sense of beauty and what it entails. deliberate aesthetic homeliness, dreadfulness, obscenity, eeriness, wickedness, repulsiveness and grotesqueness as a gendered expression. ./. End PT]

Simply put, Teratid:

is an atrinary, outherine/disatine gender identity.

is a rejection of societal beauty standards.

is a subversion of societal beauty standards.

involves acceptance, joy and comfort of traits identified within oneself that are not consider "beautiful" by society.

may or may not reclaim the ideas of monstrosity associated with things not designated "beautiful" by society.

may or may not intersect with and/or be rooted in one's queerness, disability, fatness, sex, race, culture, subculture, spirituality, etc.

may or may not involve a liberated, self-defined sense of beauty.

may or may not involve aesthetics that conjure thoughts and feelings of dread, fear, disgust, shock, indignation, discomfort, hideousness, tackiness, ostentation, crudeness, offensiveness, ugliness, etc., as well as expressions that are perceived as "evil" or are associated with "evil".

[PT: is an atrinary, outherine/disatine gender identity. is a rejection of societal beauty standards.is a subversion of societal beauty standards. involves acceptance, joy and comfort of traits identified within oneself that are not consider "beautiful" by society. may or may not reclaim the ideas of monstrosity associated with things not designated "beautiful" by society. may or may not intersect with and/or be rooted in one's queerness, disability, fatness, intersexness, race, culture, subculture, spirituality, etc. may or may not involve a liberated, self-defined sense of beauty. may or may not involve aesthetics that conjure thoughts and feelings of dread, fear, disgust, shock, indignation, discomfort, hideousness, tackiness, ostentation, crudeness, offensiveness, homeliness, etc., as well as expressions that are perceived as "evil" or are associated with "evil". ./. End PT]

Pride Flag

[PT: Pride Flag ./. End PT]

The pride flag was colored-picked from a picture of a common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) [PT: (Taraxacum officinale) ./. End PT], all from different portions of the plant. The olive green stripe was taken from it's foliage, the yellow stripe taken from the flower petals, the white stripe from the seed's pappus, the peach stripe from the stem and the brown stripe from the exterior of it's seeds.

A dandelion was chosen to represent this identity due to how dandelion is considered a "weed", even though it is a useful and charming flower. To a lawn keeper or florist, a weed is unwanted, unsightly and "bad". It does not conform to the standards of a "beautiful" flower.

In this case, the humble dandelion is considered undesirable due to the concept of a pristine, short grass lawn and the concept of floral design, despite it's various culinary uses, use in herbal remedies, role in pollination and their quaint appeal. Even though it not being a flower that is considered "beautiful" and instead, a "weed", the dandelion is inherently valuable not just in it's utility, but it's mere existence, much like an individual who does not conform to prevailing standards of beauty has inherent value by simply existing.

[gender-jargon]

did you coin aporin?

I wish ain meant abinary in nature/abin. I believe at least this is meant to distinguish from agin, since it's more intuitive I guess and some confuse them

Hey anon, thanks for sending me your question :-)

Yes, I did indeed coin aporingender (APORIN). I did so informally in my tags. I previously used (link) [PT: I previously used (link) ./. End PT] "aporogender" (link) [PT: aporogender (link) ./. End PT] as a umbrella term in itself, but most recently I used "aporingender" to describe the nonspecific/generic nature of Mongenerix (link) [PT: Mongenerix (link) ./. End PT].

I can see why there would be confusion between AIN (Aporine-in-Nature), ABIN (Abinine-in-Nature) and AGIN (Agender-in-Nature). They are all pretty similar to each other in their abbreviation. There are many, many "in-nature" terms, and they can run together sometimes.

If you have any questions about the term "APORIN", please let me know and I would be happy to elaborate on it. :-)

— Gent

[PT: - Gent ./. End PT]

[gender-jargon]

Once a child said to me that being gay is being "modified" lol. I wonder if he made up or if his friends really used that word to describe queer ppl

But I wondered why? Is it because modified means mutant? Or the worse, it means impure?

Hey anon, thanks for the message. :-)

I would be surprised if a child called me "modified" as well, lol.

As for why they called you "modified", I have an idea:

Many people see being a dyadic allocishet as the "natural" (innate, default, etc.) human state of being. Individuals who are not all of these things are often thought of as unnaturally variant; something to be changed, hidden, feared, despised and/or destroyed, or at best, just barely tolerated. In reality, these things are not inhuman-- they are a part of the intrinsic diversity of human experience.

Additions and subtractions to what is consider the "base" human experience could easily be seen as a "modification" by those who do not understand this topic and have not fully unpacked their bigotry. Furthermore, I think that a lot such people see what they deem as "modifications" as a contemptible "choice" made to corrupt the idea of a sanctified, pure and very rigid idea of what a "normal"/"natural" human is.

Anyhow, I think that the child was essentially saying that being gay is an unnatural, offensive reprehensible "decision". To directly answer your question, I think they called you both of those things.

Take comfort in knowing that this child is wrong, and is likely parroting the ignorance and bigotry modeled by adults in their life and society at large. You are neither a "mutant" nor "impure" for being gay.

-- Gent

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