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if your reaction to the gender binary is to take the male/female binary and turn it into a line from male to female with "agender" in the middle, you... have missed the complexities of how gender actually works...
you need a two dimensional graph at the very least
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@lizardsquid ternary gender, if not quaternary, etc.
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@lizardsquid There is a reason I never say "gender is a spectrum".
The reason is simple. Spectrum—to anyone other than the equivocator—is a word that has only one meaning: an ordered, sequential continuum or range.
There is no way to hear the word spectrum and not think of a series of things in a line—in the continuous manner of the real number line.
Attempts to retcon the term to encompass non-assignable genders fail, because the term itself is simply inadequate.
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Gender is a potpourri or mélange.
Gender is a patchwork or bricolage.
Gender is a medley or motley grab bag.
Gender is a Whizzo Quality Assortment, complete with mystery flavors, bucking all consumer labeling regulations.
Gender is not a spectrum. Never is gender anything so ordered or ever so sequentially linear as a mere spectrum.
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@beadsland gender is not a boring old line!
it's interesting and complex!
even for the people who fit into binary categories, that complexity is hidden behind the surface
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@lizardsquid Gender is a riot, a cacophony, a holiday jumble sale, a thicket of ferocious dust bunnies and feral lost socks.
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@lizardsquid Gender is more Jackson Pollock than Newton's Prism.