NPR's Guide to Gender Identity Terms

[jlw]

Originally published at: NPR's Guide to Gender Identity Terms | Boing Boing

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[ficuswhisperer]

Meanwhile, for those on the right:

[Papasan]

[the_borderer]

[docosc]

I will just haul my cloud model out again. Categories don’t work well if you are actually dealing with individual humans, we all exist on a spectrum, and the sooner we realize this the happier we all will be.

[chenille]

I hadn’t heard the term sigma male before. I guess it comes from this?

So I knew this categorization was going to be stupid, but…well, it’s really not that hard for even a misogynist to look up the Greek alphabet. It does not go A B D.

[d_r]

Turns out “alpha” isn’t even a real thing for wolf packs:

Wolf packs don't actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is...

[nixiebunny]

I’ve viewed gender as a 7-dimensional hypershpere for a while now.

[Bonivus_elderheart]

This Ace Approves.