Filling In The Gaps

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Hi!

From the mods of @gender-archival, comes a new coining blog! Over the course of creating an archive of Xenogenders, we’ve noticed a few gaps in terms/language/whatever and we figured, since we know about them, we might as well fill them in.

We probably won’t coin a whole lot of terms, especially not in comparison to other blogs, but we’ll be here. At the moment, we won’t be taking requests, but who knows.

Anyway, thanks for reading and  enjoy!

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Horrorigender is an umbrella term for genders related to horror, horrorcore/horror aesthetics, feelings of horror, horrifying things, horror media, etc.

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Idengender is an umbrella term for genders related to one’s identity or identifying some way. This can mean gender, kin, racial, or any other type of identity. A sort of mega term for Orientationgender, Kingender, Specifigender,  and certain Subcultigenders, as well as any terms that don’t have another umbrella.

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Relationshipgender

Relationshipgender is an umbrella term for genders related to relationships as a general concept, specific relationships, other people’s relationships, etc. Somewhat of a generalized/broader version of Relatiogender

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Texturagender

Texturagender is an umbrella term for genders related to one or more textures, textures in general, etc.

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Qualitusgender

Qualitusgender is an umbrella term for genders related to the qualities of something or qualities in general

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New Coining Event!

Hello and welcome to Synth’s Coining Rockin’ Event (or the “cre coining event” for the sane), a coining event entirely centered around rock music! Everything from J-Rock, to grunge, to hair metal! Any and everyone is welcome to participate! The event is going to last from May 1st to June 15! 

There aren’t really any rules, just some stuff I’d like to say before we get to the prompts. Every day of the event has two prompts, in theory the first one is a more known song and the second less known and also similar/linked in some way, but I don’t know how good of a job I did at that. It’s totally cool to do both prompts or just one, going off actual relation, vibes, whatever works! I’d like to ask that no one does genders just related to the listed song or songs/albums, just so we can avoid recoinings, but everything else is up for grabs!

Everyone is free to do all days, just a couple, multiple prompts a day, whatever floats your boat!

If anyone is interested in some tags they could use to organize or find terms, I have some of those under the cut. With all that out of the way, here are the prompts!

May 1st: November Rain (Guns N’ Roses) // (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult) May 2nd: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) // Slither (Velvet Revolver) May 3rd: Dream On (Aerosmith) // Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (any version) May 4th: Girls, Girls, Girls (Motley Crue) // Talk Dirty To Me (Poison) May 5th: Welcome to the Jungle (Guns N’ Roses) // Nightrain (Guns N’ Roses) May 6th: Every Rose Has Its Thorn (Poison) // Snuff (Slipknot) May 7th: I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing (Aerosmith) // I’d Die For You (Bon Jovi) May 8th: Livin’ On A Prayer (Bon Jovi) // Viva la Gloria! (Green Day) May 9th: You Give Love A Bad Name (Bon Jovi) // Shot Through The Heart (Bon Jovi) May 10th: Slippery When Wet (Bon Jovi) // 7800° Degrees Fahrenheit (Bon Jovi) May 11th: Dr. Feelgood (Motley Crue) // London Calling (The Clash) May 12th: American Idiot (Green Day) // 21st Century Breakdown (Green Day) May 13th: The Black Parade (My Chemical Romance) // Danger Days: The True Lives Of the Fabulous Killjoys (My Chemical Romance) May 14th: Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd) // Give Me Novacaine (Green Day) May 15th: Numb (Linkin Park) // Shadow On the Sun (Audioslave) May 16th: Are We the Waiting (Green Day) // The Thin Ice (Pink Floyd) May 17th: Everlong (Foo Fighters) // She’s a Rebel (Green Day) May 18th: I Don’t Love You You (My Chemical Romance) // Don’t Cry (Guns N’ Roses) May 19th: Basketcase (Green Day) // Everyday is News (Shinsei Kamattechan) May 20th: Holiday (Green Day) // God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols) May 21st: Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) // Homecoming (Green Day) May 22nd: Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions) // Young Lust (Pink Floyd) May 23rd: Somebody Told Me (The Killers) // Michael (Franz Ferdinand) May 24th: The Sharpest Lives (My Chemical Romance) // Kickstart My Heart (Motley Crue) May 25th: In The End (Linkin Park) // Last Resort (Papa Roach) May 26th: Pour Some Sugar On Me (Def Leppard) // Cherry Pie (Warrant) May 27th: Here I Go Again (Whitesnake) // Street Of Dreams (Guns N’ Roses) May 28th: Should I Stay Or Should I Go (The Clash) // American Woman (Lenny Kravitz) May 29th: Shout At the Devil (Motley Crue) // The Hardest Part Is The Night (Bon Jovi) May 30th: Closer (Nine Inch Nails) // Wither (Tech N9ne, Corey Taylor) May 31st: I Love Rock N’ Roll (Joan Jett) // Mental Health(Bang Your Head) (Quiet Riot) June 1st: Master of Puppets (Metallica) // Under The Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers) June 2nd: Enter Sandman (Metallica) // Nightmare (Avenged Sevenfold) June 3rd: Toxicity (System Of A Down) // Carnivore (Body Count) June 4th: Nevermind (Nirvana) // Whatever (Adore Delano) June 5th: Sweet Child O’ Mine (Guns N’ Roses) // Born To Be My Baby (Bon Jovi) June 6th: Psychosocial (Slipknot) // Welcome to Horrorwood (Ice Nine Kills) June 7th: A Little Piece of Heaven (Avenged Sevenfold) // Enthrone (CHTHONIC) June 8th: Walk This Way (Aerosmith or Aerosmith, Run D.M.C.) // Bring The Noise (Public Enemy, Anthrax) June 9th: Rocket Man (Elton John) // Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix) June 10th: Say It Ain’t So (Weezer) // Inside Out (Eve 6) June 11th: Letterbomb (Green Day) // Better (Guns N’ Roses) June 12th: I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Panic! At The Disco) // Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down (Fall Out Boy) June 13th: Combat Rock (The Clash) // Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (The Sex Pistols) June 14th: Runaway Train (Soul Asylum) // Patience (Guns N’ Roses) June 15th: Dust N’ Bones (Guns N’ Roses) // Homebound Train (Bon Jovi)

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Psychologender

Psychologender is an umbrella term for genders related to psychology, psychological complexes, and other psychology-related things that aren’t mental illnesses.

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Academiagender

Academiagender is an umbrella term for genders related to academia, school, related aesthetics, etc. in some way

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Goriagender

Goriagender is an umbrella term for genders related to gore, guro, etc. in any way, including being related to fictional versions of it, art of it, or related aesthetics.

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Vehiculagender

Vehiculagender is an umbrella term for genders that are related to one or more vehicles or types of vehicles

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Corpumgender

Corpumgender is an umbrella term for genders that are related to certain body parts (including things like hair) in a general sense, or those belonging to someone other than the user

The name comes from the Latin word for body, corpus

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The Deletion Problem

Since I’ve noticed the recent issue with redefinitions on the Wiki, I’ve been doing a lot more lurking. Luckily that seems to have stopped, however, I’ve noticed a different issue. I don’t know how long it’s been going on exactly, but it’s equally, if not more, drastic than redefining.

I know I’ve made a post in the past about term erasure in regards to the Wiki, but it seems to be a lot deeper than I thought.

I should preface this post with the fact that I do not think that Wikis should be used to coin terms. That’s entirely against the point of them in the first place and it can make definition verification more difficult. I also think that Wiki pages should link to sources for term coinings, definitions, flags, etc.

However, I don’t believe that any of this should lead to a page being removed from a Wiki, especially if it leads to a term being wiped off the face of the Earth. Sure, they should not be left up as is for the most part - I feel that unsourced pages should have sources added to them where possible and that it should be noted when it isn’t and that any users who consistently coin terms on Wiki should be blocked. But that’s it. Terms should not be erased for those flaws.

To get to the main issue of the post, I’ve been going through pages tagged for deletion on the Wiki and noticed some concerning patterns.

First off, a number of pages are being deleted for their terms being similar to other terms. Some of these terms will have their pages (and, unfortunately likely, their definitions) merged with those of other pages. Others, as far as I can tell, will just be out and out deleted. As unfortunate as the latter is, for terms that were coined in other places, it could be far worse. At least they’ll exist somewhere else and somewhere that’s more trustworthy. Terms from the latter group that were coined on the Wiki or any terms in the former group, there are more issues. To hopefully make this point clear, I would like to use an example: Animegender (deletion notice here)

There are a few issues with that page, mainly the definition being from a separate term, while the flag that IMOGA-Pride made is listed as the flag, but that’s not for this post. For the purpose of simplicity, I’ll be treating the page, I’ll be treating it as though it’s for the IMOGA-Pride coined version of the term exclusively, primarily as that’s where the first listed flag is from and it’s the term that most are familiar with.

This term’s page is set to be deleted and merged with the page of Anigender. This is a problem for one specific reason. Going off of the definition for Anigender that’s currently listed on the Wiki (here), it is a fairly meaningfully different term from Animegender. Anigender is related to anime in a very broad sense; it could be related to different kinds of anime, related aesthetics, certain characters, etc. This is an issue because Animegender is explicitly related to being animekin in some way. 

While these terms could be seen as similar, especially in name and from a primarily surface level/aesthetic viewpoint, they are meaningfully different. Not only is it an issue because these terms have notable differences in the most basic sense, but because it could strip kin individuals of a term created specifically for them; taking it from a term that is inherently related to and created for kin, to one that could be related to kin if someone wants, but could also be anything else for anyone.

Another term up for deletion due to “similarities” to a different term is Appleian (here). Appleian is set to be deleted due to being a “copy” of the term Applegender (here). This holds more drastic issues than the previous example when it comes to being seen as similar for one reason. While Anigender can at least be used for kin reasons under the right circumstances, Appleian can only be seen as at all similar to its “counterpart” if one has a very specific definition of aesthetic to whoever added the deletion notice to the page.

Appleian is a term listed as being related to the aesthetic of apples. That is it, that is all. On the other hand, Applegender has a far different definition outside of one small, technically similar aspect. In part, its described as being related to the taste of apples and possibly being sweet and juicy. Due to two mentions of Applegender possibly being related to the look of apples, Appleian has been written off as a clone and will likely be deleted.

This would be concerning as is, with it painting the Wiki as a place that is not friendly to terms that bear any similarities to others, regardless of the major differences, but it gets worse. Appleian was coined on the Wiki. As of me writing this post, it is the only place that has the term listed. If this page gets deleted, there will be no more Appleian. All because it bears minor similarities to an obviously different term.

The final term I’d like to mention that’s being deleted for similarities is Artemgender(here). It’s being deleted for its similarities to the term Cadensgender(here). Cadensgender is a term that changes based on the music one is listening to. That’s it. There’s no specification, just the very general conditions listed for the gender changing, and that’s essentially it.

Artemgender on the other hand does have inherent specifications as to how and when it changes. Specifically, it changes to match the gender of the artist who created the music that one is listening to and generally only changes in relation to specific music, not music in general.

Due to the very general similarity of changing due to music, Artemgender is set to be removed from the Wiki, regardless of the specifications that make it a clearly distinct term from Cadensgender.

To make it worse, This is a similar case to Appleian - the term was coined on the Wiki and is not listed anywhere else. Once this page is deleted, that’s going to be it.

Outside of this, I’ve noticed one other uniquely notable commonality among gender pages set for deletion and have two other terms that I would like to mention. First, the other trend: pages that are marked to be deleted for no listed reason.

This won’t be as long of a segment as its problems feel more obvious and are less varied. The terms that I saved for this issue are as follows: Zeronian(here)

Ichthyogender(here)

Icechocoan(here)

The main issue here is that, while two of these terms have been moved to Genderpedia and have been saved, this version of Ichthyogender hasn’t. Once it’s gone, it will likely be gone, too.

Finally, the honorable mentions - terms that don’t fit within a pattern, but that deserve special attention called to them regardless.

First - Annuagender(here)

Annuagender is marked for deletion for what is honestly the most baffling reason yet, outside of users declaring terms with minor similarities functionally identical. The only reason this term is listed for deletion is due to the fact that it’s tagged with Xenogender when, based purely on the listed definition, it may not have to be.

A term is about to be deleted from an LGBT+ Wiki due to either not being strictly a Xenogender or for being tagged incorrectly. I’m not sure which it is, primarily since they’re equally as asinine.

This term is also not archived anywhere else, so it, too, will be wiped off the internet due to either a non-issue or an easily fixable mistake.

Second - Aichmophobian(here)

While the reason for this term’s deletion makes mildly more sense than the first, it is still in no way justified and is entirely unacceptable behaviour for an archival Wiki like this one.

Aichmophobian is marked to be deleted in part due to the coiner having been a bad person. Not a troll from what I’m aware of (though there’s a case to be made for leaving some of those up with proper context as well), just someone with (at best) questionable beliefs.

Keep in mind, I’m in no way defending this individual, nor their actions. From what I’m aware of, what they’ve done is entirely inexcusable and should not be repeated or taken lightly.l However, that does not change how useful this term could be to others, especially as this user did not seem to be a run-of-the-mill troll just making fun of Xeongenders.

In addition to that, this term also exists primarily on the Wiki and will also disappear with this page.

To be completely honest, I’m not sure how to end this post, primarily because I don’t know what can be done and there’s no real “be cautious of information from this wiki” lesson to be had.

This whole thing is just really disheartening. We’re watching terms be deleted for non-issues, things that are issues but that shouldn’t get terms wiped, or because someone misunderstood a definition. It should be concerning that terms can be removed this easily with seemingly no way to stop it.

The only thing I can ask is that any archival bloggers or site runners do their best to archive terms from that category before it’s too late. Not only can this Wiki not be trusted to provide reliable information, but it also can’t really be trusted to provide information at all.

I don’t think there’s much more to be said here other than that it’s wrong and that this Wiki needs major changes to be made to how terms are archived and how it’s moderated. Other than that, thank you for reading.

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Qualigender

Qualigender is an umbrella terms for genders that do and feel like they have different qualities. This also includes genders that are certain intangible things/descriptors such as ancient or on holiday

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Occurrigender/Occurregender

Occurrigender/Occurregender is an umbrella term for genders related to occurrences, events, experiences, etc.

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Festivusgender

Festivusgender is an umbrella term for genders related to holidays in some way, including holiday-related aesthetics, holiday traditions/customs, etc.

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Imagrigender

Imagrigender is an umbrella term for genders related to imagery in some way.