Quote from: ZaidaZadkiel on February 07, 2009, 09:10:31 PM
If they're different, we end up with:
male <-> female
and
Nullgender <-> pangender
This doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
Why not? That's exactly how I see it. All you have to do is look at gender in two dimensions rather than just one:
totally bigender (100/100)
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(100/0) total man ----- 50/50 ----- total woman (0/100)
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totally neutrois (0/0)
( witness my ubercool ascii-art skillzzz! ^_^ )
Of course, I don't think the end-points on this little diagram exist - there's no such thing as a perfectly male man or a perfectly female woman, neither is there a total bigender or total neutrois, but there are people that approach either extreme. You'd have another graph representing the physical where this last one represented the mental - i.e. gender identity. somebody totally bigendered would probably show dramatic shifts between male and female, masculine and feminine, while people tending towards the neutrois side of things would be less and less ... attached, for lack of a better word, to a sense of man and woman, till you get an andro who just doesn't find any resonance with either.
Of course, this is just my take on it, and I'm not even an androgyne, so I don't really have a right to comment.
Mina.
