**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 05:19

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 05:19

a literal cat @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space

Jul 08, 2020, 05:19

a literal cat @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space

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

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**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:34

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:34

Jul 08, 2020, 20:34

a literal cat @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space

@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

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:34

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:34

Jul 08, 2020, 20:34

a literal cat @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space

@Motodrachen@awoo.space like

we don't have a "system gender", we have individual genders, so i dunno how it would make a difference

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:37

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:37

Jul 08, 2020, 20:37

a literal cat @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space

@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

**Cabinet Derg** @Motodrachen@awoo.space · 2020-07-08T20:39:04Z

Cabinet Derg @Motodrachen@awoo.space

@InspectorCaracal You made it really Well, I really do feel like I'm doing spectrography when I'm trying to help my plural friends with their gender issues.

Jul 08, 2020, 20:39 · · · ·

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:40

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:40

Jul 08, 2020, 20:40

a literal cat @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space

@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 😅

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:43

**a literal cat** @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space · Jul 08, 2020, 20:43

Jul 08, 2020, 20:43

a literal cat @InspectorCaracal@ping.the-planet.space

@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.

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