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this was originally supposed to be just a flag that looks pretty, but i decided it make it into an identity!! i hope you guys enjoy! this is my first coining, so please correct me if im doing anything wrong! ;w;
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softereal(pronounced soft-ear-e-al) - a flexible term that can describe gender and/or presentation! in terms of presentation, it can mean that your presentation is more soft, feminine, and delicate. in terms of gender, it can mean that your gender feels soft, ethereal, delicate, and light! it carries a feminine aura, and anyone can use it!
the people i have tagged don’t have to reblog! i’d just appreciate it if they did! <3
What is alibinary?
Alibinary is a word made from the prefix ali-, meaning other, and the word binary. I’m using this word because the system I coined has to do with how different people who are not binary have different relationships to the gender binary.
I think just using nonbinary would make this information hard to find and make this system hard to talk about, since there are many nonbinary systems already.
That said, I don’t think alibinary is meant to be an identity on its own here; please use alibinary system (or AS) when talking about the system, or “people who use the AS/alibinary system”, not “alibinary people” or “alibinary community” or whatever.
But ali is similar to allistic! Appropriation!
1. I’m autistic myself.
2. I don’t think coining new words based on prefixes or using words such as alias, alibi and alien constitutes any sort of appropriation.
3. Alibinary and allistic don’t even look similar.
What is this system composed of?
Viabinary, a word for those who relate to having an experience similar to a binary gender, while not being 100% that binary gender;
Mesobinary, a word for those who relate to having an experience of both binary genders, or to having an experience of being in-between binary genders;
Ideobinary, a word for those who relate to having an experience that does rely on binary or binary-related concepts, while not relating to have an experience that is similar of that of a binary gender;
Exobinary, a word for those who relate to having an experience that is completely independent of binary genders, or at least outside of binary experiences.
In the future, I hope to have more detailed posts for each of these experiences.
Isn’t it problematic/bad/exorsexist/binarist to have all of these based on the binary?
Since binary genders are considered to be the norm, at least in most Western societies, I think it’s fair to say our relationships to the gender binary may affect how we experience exorsexism, dysphoria, erasure, and so on. This is why these terms are the way they are.
If you don’t feel like they apply to your reality, if you don’t feel like sharing spaces with people with completely different identities even if you face similar issues in some ways, or if you are uncomfortable with this system, you are free to not use those terms or participate on communities based on those terms.
What about people with multiple genders? Or genderfluid people? Or people who relate to more than one of those?
Anyone is free to use as many of these labels they want, if they feel like they apply to them.
Someone may say they are mainly exobinary but also relate to some ideobinary stuff, or that they are genderfluid and experience exobinary, mesobinary and viabinary issues at different times, and so on.
Is mascgender a viabinary or ideobinary identity?
This system is based on what issues one is/feels affected by, not on what gender identity someone is. A mascgender person may relate to both, or to one of those, or to none of those; that may vary from person to person.
If you are unsure of what applies to you, you may want to read more on each of these terms.
Are there combo terms?
Not for now. If someone wants to make them, I don’t mind, but I think having more content for the system as it is should be more of a priority than coining more terms.
I want this system to be useful, instead of being just another set of identities and flags that people are like “oh cool” before moving into the next ones when the set is finished, with no one remembering which term means what one week later.
Is there a term for those who don’t fit any of these?
Not for now. If you feel like there is a specific set of issues that may need a word within this system (as opposed to something that may just be described as, say, neurogender issues, pomogender issues, aporagender issues or genderfluid issues), feel free to talk about it!
As for a term that just means “none of the above”, I don’t see how that would be helpful, at least for now. I don’t think you can manage to fit everyone who doesn’t fit into this system as people who face the same kinds of issues, and it’s not like anyone is being forced to choose between viabinary, mesobinary, exobinary and ideobinary, so if you don’t fit anything, I don’t see any reason to want to have a word for it at all. Most people don’t even know about this system!
Anyways, this system is not meant to replace any other sort of terminology. You can still identify as agender, lunarian, xenic, singularian, genderqueer, undefined, quoigender, apogender, genderflux, gendersylph, colorgender, nonbinary girl or whatever your other identities are, regardless if you use the alibinary system or not.
Don’t you think this system can erase certain issues?
This system is meant to bring up issues and discussions that are not taken care of if we are talking about people who aren’t binary as a whole, or if we are talking about issues within specific communities only.
This system is not meant to be a replacement for talking about more general or more specific issues.
We can still talk about aporagender issues. We can still talk about exorsexism. We can still talk about maverique specific issues. We can still talk about solarian specific issues. We can still talk about juxera specific issues. We can still talk about gender reductionism. We can still talk about bigotry targeting genderfluid people. We can still talk about hatred against xenogender identities. We can still talk about agender spectrum erasure. We can still talk about erasure of anyone who is not binary from transgender communities, or from “LGBT” communities as a whole.
The alibinary system is supposed to be a tool to talk about specific issues, to be used alongside with other existing terms, not instead of them.
admasculine: transitioning towards masculinity
adfeminine: transitioning towards femininity
these are meant to be slightly more inclusive than ‘transmasculine’ and ‘transfeminine’. who wouldn’t feel included by trans-? why do we need ad-? i’m glad you ask! here are some examples:
- an AFAB bigender person who has been on T for a long time and now needs to do the same things as transfeminine people to pass on girl days would be transmasculinebutadfeminine
- a man in a system who has to dress up the body of his cis woman host when he fronts to feel himself would be admasculine
- a trans woman would be adfeminine, because it’s an umbrella term that transfeminine falls under
- a cis man with kallman’s syndrome who chooses to take T might be admasculine
- an AFAB nonbinary femme might call themselves adfeminine because they feel like they’re transitioning into a different kind of femininity than the heteronormative role they were assigned at birth
- a butch woman who transitions but wants to avoid the connotations of transmasculine might feel more comfortable calling herself admasculine
- a woman in a system who’s transfeminine inworld but fronts into an AFAB body would be adfeminine
- an intersex person who has undergone medical intervention but doesn’t consider themselves trans might talk about their experiences instead as an adgenderperson
I was thinking and came to the realization that there’s no real distinction between orientations such as homoromantic and demiromantic, even though those describe totally different ways of attraction. Lumping them together has its flaws, so I created my own labels to distinguish them from each other when coining orientations.
Affinitive orientations: Orientations describing what genders you’re attracted to, such as bisexual, pansexual, asexual, lesbian, gay, etc. Named for having an affinity for a given gender.
Amative orientations: Orientations describing how you’re attracted to a person. Examples include demi-, weort- ,mellow-, and fray-.
Neuwoman Pride Flag
Neuwoman (neulher/neujer): a woman that is neutrally gendered; a gender-neutral woman. Similar to neulier, neufemale, ningirl & neutrogirl/neutrowoman.
Neuman Pride Flag
Neuman (neumen/neumem): a man that is neutrally gendered; a genderneutral man. Similar to neutroboy/neutroman/neutromale, ninboy & neumale.
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connumboy: fluid between multiple masculine or neutral gender identites, but never just one identity.
connumgirl: fluid between multiple feminine or neutral gender identities, but never just one identity.
i hope you guys like them!
Royalcoric : An aesthetigender related to royalty, nobility, and lavish, dramatic aesthetics as a whole!
Glitchcoric : An aesthetigender related to computer errors, glitches, and viruses. Heavily related to the RGB color scale!
Arcadecoric : An aesthetigender related to arcades, cabinet video games, and old video game tech aesthetics as a whole!