Do the terms masculinity or femininity apply to androgynes?

[Taka]

you really had me thinking there, ativan. but no matter how much i think i can't seem to find myself anywhere. some times i feel like there are parts of me spread around everywhere, which is why i find this whole thing complicated. don't know if i can get help form a therapist either, the closest one is probably only 500 miles away if i wan't someone who has some knowledge of gender issues

[Taka]

skype is a good thing, but i wonder if they'd want to treat people outside their own country. my feeling right now is that the answer might find itself through the interaction with other people. it is after all society that i have the biggest problem with, and not myself. if i can find a place to belong in society, then that might tell more about me than any of my own confused thoughts

maybe i'll try writing about myself a little later. just to see if someone else has some thoughts to share

[Jaimey]

Answering the original question, I feel like those words apply for no other reason than those are the words we have to work with, aside from androgynous.  There just aren't a lot of words in English to describe a person's gender other than feminine, masculine, and androgynous. 

And people are always going to describe others.  I'm sure some of us don't want to be described by other people or subject to their choice of descriptions, but that's how we, as humans, understand each other and ourselves.

[foosnark]

I answered yes.

Picture gender as a cluster of different properties... put it in 3 dimensions for ease of imagining, but it's more like 100 dimensions.  There are two big statistical spikes that we call masculine and feminine.  They look like absolutes if you aren't paying attention, and most people don't.  But not being absolutes doesn't make them useless as reference points.

Androgyny is even defined by masculine and feminine concepts; it is a blending of them, and/or an absence of them.

[ativan]

you really had me thinking there, ativan. but no matter how much i think i can't seem to find myself anywhere. some times i feel like there are parts of me spread around everywhere, which is why i find this whole thing complicated.

Tak a few steps away from yoursef and se if it looks any clearer. If not then get a little farther away again. You don't see the world for what it is until you see it, by itself, in space.
I hope you don't have far to go to get to see your self!
Ativan