Modern pronoun/gender qvery - NSFW discussion
A few of my OC's are dual-gendered and were created that way. At the time, I just labeled them as 'herm'. It was a term I learned about 2 decades ago based on some of Plato's writings about the nature of man, discribing beings of two halves... some M/M, some F/F, and some M/F.
Being online wasn't a thing for me back then, so I just pondered these ideas on my own, and really enjoyed the concept of a being having multiple genders/partitions, and that was around the time of my shattering, so it was a good part of the manner of thinking as I pulled myself back together.
So, I more or less took on the internal pronoun-identity of 'herm' based on that line of logic, more to the point I took on multiple selves of differing genders and non-genders, and that was the best catch-all term that I had been exposed to.
When I drew and scripted the OC characters in qvestion (Julie, Val, HarleyGato, etc...), herm was a natural fit, and no one gave any indication that it was problematic.
... but, now it sorta is, and I don't want to be offensive in describing them (not that I draw them very often, nowadays), but the term was vastly more self-forming than offensive for me...
... and I'm honestly not sure where or how to progress from here.
I don't see myself as trans, because I don't see myself as one being that could claim that term. I have partitions that are male, female, non-gendered ('shunt' was my term for it), dual-gendered, and gender-fluidic. My philosophy has mostly been that I don't mind what pronoun is used towards me, because there's likely someone in me that would recognize it, and some that wouldn't.
I'm fine with this self-classification and assertion. I don't want to offend anyone else who isn't though, and nowadays that's slightly tricky.
Is "dual-gendered" an acceptable term, by the way, or is that an offense/slur?
Modern pronoun/gender qvery - NSFW discussion
@JulieSqveakaroo Back in the earlier days of online multi-user dungeons, I was paired for a time with a feline who sported the best of both worlds, as it were. At the time, the prevailing terms were 'intersexed' and 'herm', and sie chose hir terms and pronouns from those in use then: I respected hir usage of them. As they're the terms I learned first, they're my defaults - but I'll happily adopt whatever terms are least harmful in any setting.
