I was just the other day talking with some fellow queers about the common model of gender as a spectrum between man and woman, and how flawed that is (and similarly for masculine and feminine, etc.) Because it sets it up as, the more man you are the less woman/other you are, and vice versa. And lumps agender and third gender in with "exactly halfway between man and woman" to boot.
I like a model that is more like a coordinate system, where male and female and any other genders you need to include are distinct directions and a gender can be made up of any combination of them (including negative values, if someone's gender is substantially informed by what they're not.) Granted I'm a mathematician....
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I was just the other day talking with some fellow queers about the common model of gender as a spectrum between man and woman, and how flawed that is (and similarly for masculine and feminine, etc.) Because it sets it up as, the more man you are the less woman/other you are, and vice versa. And lumps agender and third gender in with "exactly halfway between man and woman" to boot.
I like a model that is more like a coordinate system, where male and female and any other genders you need to include are distinct directions and a gender can be made up of any combination of them (including negative values, if someone's gender is substantially informed by what they're not.) Granted I'm a mathematician....