a literal cat 
people say "gender is a spectrum" but then they think of it like a point along a gradient, or like a HSL value in a color wheel
i would like to posit that if gender is, in fact, a spectrum, then individual genders are not single points or even contiguous blobs but rather are more like this
@Motodrachen@awoo.space i... don't know if i agree with that? i mean, it might be extra true for some plural systems but it sure isn't for mine
@Motodrachen@awoo.space like
we don't have a "system gender", we have individual genders, so i dunno how it would make a difference
@InspectorCaracal Well yah, different emissive spectra for each.
At least for us, but then again, we're all kinda genderqueer in here.
@Motodrachen@awoo.space actually, i don't think i did make my point very well because it doesn't really have anything to do with plurality 😅
@Motodrachen@awoo.space i'm not sure if this is where the mixup is, but... the different lines on the spectrum aren't different genders? it's like how the image shows three different elements, right? each element represents a single gender. ONE gender consists of many lines on the spectrum, because gender is complex and not neatly defined into a single-point graph.
@Motodrachen@awoo.space yeah but it's still the same concept of "a single gender produces multiple identifiable lines on the gender spectrum" either way, right? that's kinda the point i was trying to make