Quote from: Shantel on August 31, 2013, 11:11:48 AM
Taka and Lo,
     I love your descriptive symbolism but I prefer to just not over-think this for my own part as it would surely drive me crazy. 

Thank you! :>

Over-thinking things sometimes is fun.

Quote from: Taka on August 31, 2013, 11:36:43 AM
lo's analogy works really well for making me understand what place they find themselves comfortable in. i'll insist on being a comet, but the experience of not being like mars or venus while still sharing some qualities, isn't all that different when society insists that everyone needs to identify with one of those two planets.

I've officially been reminded that I like planetary analogies in terms of gender and sexuality a lot~

Quote from: Fairy Princess with a Death Ray on August 31, 2013, 11:47:53 AM
I often think of gender in terms of orbits: some relatively stable, others highly chaotic; some near-circular, others predictable, yet highly eccentric; all bodies' orbital trajectories influenced by every other, sometimes subtly and sometimes acutely.

Maddy

Ah, but see, that's why I chose the sun: it dun orbit around any planets or any other star. It just does its own thing.

A little bit of a disclaimer, the tattoo represents both my gender and my asexuality, which REALLY emphasizes the "I don't orbit around stuff in that way" thing.

The sun does have an orbit, around the galaxy core if nothing else.

Lo, I love your imagery!

In my analogy, different gender manifestations would be represented by structural variations in the orbiting bodies: males could be gas planets, females, rocky, the ice giants could represent a third or intermediary gender, and agender could be represented by a body with an undifferentiated structure(?). My thought is that this allows the possibility of a polyphony of as-of-yet uncatalogued genders above and beyond the traditional ones.

Quote from: LordKAT on August 31, 2013, 10:54:53 PM
The sun does have an orbit, around the galaxy core if nothing else.

And Susans.org is the black hole around which it orbits. How much time have I spent on here today? *checks watch*