Anonymous asked:
Hello! I was wondering if you know if there's a label for this feeling. I experience masculinity in relation to my female feelings and femininity in relation to my male feelings. I haven't found a word for it yet!
Anonymous asked:
Hello! I was wondering if you know if there's a label for this feeling. I experience masculinity in relation to my female feelings and femininity in relation to my male feelings. I haven't found a word for it yet!
gender-resource answered:
Hey there, anon! Thanks for your question. :-)
If I understand correctly, you are saying that you experience masculinity through your femaleness and that you experience femininity through your maleness. To my knowledge, there isn’t a word to describe that exact situation, but I do have some words that are quite similar. If none of the terms I list below suffice, please feel free to send me another message and I would be happy to help you coin a term or provide a platform for you to submit one if you would like to coin a term yourself. :-)
Most similar to what you are describing would be the terms Vidfirma and Vidfirmus, which don’t appear to have been archived or even posted on tumblr, but on Amino. The definition of this term is quite lengthy, so, in my own words, Vidfirmus is an ambiguous gender where masculinity and femininity are uniquely distinct, yet drawn together into an androgynous form where masculinity is dominant, yet explicitly experienced through the perspective of femininity. Vidfirma is an ambiguous gender where masculinity and femininity are unique distinct, yet drawn together into an androgynous form where femininity is dominant, yet explicitly experience through the perspective of masculinity. If you feel like you relate to these two terms, I suppose you could refer to yourself as a Vidfirmis to communicate a bigender, gendervast, etc., though this term has not been coined to my knowledge. Why Vidfirmis? The dative plural form of “firmus”/”firma” is “firmis”, which is the same for the masculine, feminine and neuter case (trying to keep with the syntax of the coiner!).
Some other somewhat close (pairs of) terms include:
- Gent
I thought about this for a little while longer and did some more reading, and I realized that the terms Vidfirma and Vidfirmus have a nonbinary counterpart called “Vidfirmum”. I originally suggested “Vidfirmis” as a way to communicate a Vidfirmus/Vidfirma bigender identity, because it was the same across all three grammatical genders, but since “Vidfirmum” is a term, the syntax implies that the term “vidfirmis” would be a sort of trigender/gendervast/etc. of all three. For this reason, I would like to suggest “Vidfirme” to describe the aforementioned bigender. In the ablative case, the terms would “-firmo” and “-firma”, so “-firme” would be a neologistic conjugation, as there is no natural conjugation that is both grammatically feminine and masculine without also being neuter.
- Gent
barnean is, in its basest form, a nonbinary gender that resulted from (or is currently forming as a result of) your designation as “child” while you were growing up. this is a difficult concept to explain, but basically, due to a barnean’s specific upbringing, their gender formed due to their self-perception of their social/gender class as “child”. this can be a result of multiple things, including:
there are also multiple ways to identify as barnean. here are a few:
i’m very nervous about posting this because of other similar genders being stolen and co-opted by nasty groups of people, so p*dophiles, M*PS, NOM*PS, PE*RS, and any other child predator may never under any circumstance use these terms.
from “barn” - the word for child in many Scandinavian languages. colors of the flag are pastel green and yellow, as i associate them with gender neutral baby/children’s colors.
i created this gender specifically to describe my own experience. if you dislike it, you do not have to use it in any way.
Nice term! I plan to archive this in my dictionary because I think this may be quite relatable to others, but I am a little unsure of the definition and was hoping to get some clarification.
So, if I understand correctly:
a barnean gender is a non-binary genderness currently in a state of development that is related to one’s atypical childhood/upbringing and one’s self-perception while occupying the social role of “child”, as a child. Adults may use this term to describe the manner in which their gender formed in the past and to describe the manner in which this past formation effects their current identity.
Is this a proper interpretation of the term? I want to make sure I represent this properly in my dictionary. Please let me know if I got something wrong so I can fix it.
- Gent
Unbinary: opposite gender(s) of the gender binary. Unlike antibinary this is not a POC-specific identity. Can be seen as a biantigender of girl and boy.
Not be confused with antiandrogyne, abinary or (a)non-binary. ~ ap
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