Beansexuality - a counterpart for berri and almond
Hello everyone! I've been searching whole internet trying to find a perfect label to me. I did stumble upon two terms, that we're identical and suited me - plumsexual and citrusexual.
Both of them are a counterpart to almond- and berrisexual - attraction to mainly nonbinary/neutral-aligned genders with slight and/or rare attraction towards women/fem-aligned and men/masc-aligned genders.
The problem is that authors of both terms had their accounts deleted and the terms along with definitions were in some way archived. I could still use one of them, that's true, but it did bother me a bit that both of them did resemble another flag in some way (plumsexual takes colors from nonbinary flag, but it also resembled AceApl flag and an enbyromantic flag I've found on Tumblr, citrusexual looks almost identical to AlloAro flag).
That's why I decided to coin a new term and recoin (reuse?) the definition to have a complementary label that would go well with berri and almondsexual.
I present to you all - Beansexual!
Beansexual - a sexual orientation under multisexual umbrella defining a person who's attracted mainly to non-binary/neutral-aligned/androgynous-aligned genders, but feels slight and/or rare attraction to women/feminine-aligned genders and men/masculine-aligned genders.
Shades of green going towards yellow-ish represent attraction to non-binary and neutral-aligned genders, green being a color grom agender flag and being good at representing genders other than feminine and masculine
White represents attraction not being exclusive to only non-binary/neutral-aligned genders and still being a part of multisexual umbrella
Shades of purple represent slight/rare attraction to women/fem-aligned and men/masc-aligned genders. I chose purple because it is a mix of blue and pink, which commonly represent women/fem-aligned people and men/masc-aligned people.
Why did I choose that name?
For starters - I did wonder about why were berri(es) and almond chosen for berri and almondsexuality. I could see the link between the name and colours of the flag, but didn't understand why specifically were they chosen. Then I looked at previously mentioned citrusexuality and plumsexuality. I could also see the resemblance in name and flag color. I decided to go with a name of food as well. Since almondsexual is named after nuts and berrisexual after fruits, I decided to pick a vegetable. I did want the colors in the flag to be suited, have a meaning but also to resemble the veggie it was named after. The first thinfg that came to my mind were peas and beans - they can be green, yellow or purple which suited the flag perfectly.
It was previously called peasexual but someone noticed that "pea" does sound like "pee". Ngl English is not my first language and I initially had beans in my head but was a bit too ashamed to change it after mistaking it for peas, so let me take the chance and quickly change the name to beansexual 😭😭