Hi! We were chatting with another blog and the following question came up:
Are gynine/andrine interchangeable with experiencing womanhood/manhood?
I'm also curious if genderera/eraine and gendervir/virine would be interchangeable with experiencing womanhood and manhood.
Basically, do gynine, genderera, or eraine describe the same thing as womanhood? And do andrine, gendervir, or virine describe them same thing as manhood? Or perhaps none of them do. What do you think?
Gendervir is the larger umbrella for genders that are male, male-aligned, male-adjacent, and male-related, and genderera is the female counterpart. Their qualities are virine and eraine. Gendervir is like... man and also more, while genderera is woman but also more. I suppose the two could be interchangeable with manhood/womanhood if someone wants to use the labels in that way. It's like the negligible difference between maingender/feingender and man/woman.
Under these umbrellas would be man and woman, their qualities being andrine and gynine. Andrinity is interchangeable with manhood, and gyninity is interchangeable with womanhood.
I kind of wish andrine and gynine could be the quality for all things gendervir and genderera respectively, so they didn't feel so exclusive, and that I just could recoin it all. Maybe it can come down to preference of terms. People can do whatever feels comfortable.
Virine/eraine are not mine though. I saw the earliest mention of them on theoutherlings' blog, though I'm not sure if that's where they were also coined.
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