#men-aligned

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Demisolstellar, semisolstellar or hemisolstellar: demigender of solstellar; partial alignment with manhood/masculinity and neutrality/nullity; demisolar demistellar; part nonaligned, part masc-/man-aligned and part something else.

Synonymous with solstian (demisolstellarian/hemisolstellarian/semisolstellarian, solstacian, deminovarian/seminovarian/heminovarian or anterian solstellarian/novarian). -Ap

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hey full offense but I’m really gonna need people to stop thinking of men- and women-aligned as polar opposites. ‘men-aligned’ and ‘women-aligned’ are terms a nonbinary person can use to describe the ways they feel connected to binary genders/experiences, which can mean partially being a binary gender (demigirl, demiboy, genderlfuid/flux people who go through binary genders, etc.), it can mean feeling a connection to the gender you were assigned at birth because you spent so long living as if that was your truth, it can even mean feeling connected to binary experiences because you present feminine/masculine, and much, much more! 

and, surprisingly enough, this means that you can identify with both men-aligned and women-aligned! an nb person can be a demiboy who presents masculine and therefore consider themselves men-aligned, while also being afab and identifying with women’s experiences with oppression in the patriarchy, which is why they also consider themselves women-aligned. And that’s just one example! There are literally a million ways to identify as both men- and women-aligned!

the alignment system is much more complex than people give it credit for. when we say that ‘men-aligned people aren’t men and women-aligned people aren’t women’, we mean it. nb experiences are much more complex than that, and I’d strongly appreciate it if y’all stopped enforcing this bullshit by saying stuff like ‘women-aligned nb people are welcome, but not men-aligned nb people!’ 

‘men-aligned’ and ‘women-aligned’ aren’t mutually exclusive terms, it isn’t the binary of nb genders or whatever y’all seem to think it is, and I’m going to need everyone (yes, even other nb people, I’ve seen so many nb people perpetuate this bullshit too) to step up their game and protect nb people with complicated experiences.