Flag with symbol (left), Flag without symbol (right)
Anthidial is a gender descriptor, that describes genders that have qualities that present as a specific gender alignment(s), however don’t accurately fit under these things.
The main kinds of gender this was coined to cover being genders relating to concepts, as concepts are quite broad in functionality, since while some concepts ARE tied traditionally to gender, some aren’t and generally are referred to a xenine gender.
However this isn’t only what Anthidial covers, as it also covers ANY gender that can be described as having qualities of other specific things, while not being that thing.
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Examples of what this includes (not ONLY what it can include, just some examples):
Concept related genders that aren’t accurately explained under the xenogender umbrella, however also aren’t described by concepts usually prescribed to gender. This can include genders relating to emptiness, wholeness, tiredness, wakefulness, alertness, etc. as these are emotions sometimes prescribed to gender or how one experiences genders, however in this case they’re apart of or included in an abstract concept.
Terms relating to how one uses a gender term, whether it be literally, figuratively, metaphorically, etc. such as an individual who uses catgender to explain how one’s gender feels like how a cat behaves, versus believing their gender is catgender in itself.
Genders described as being similar to existing genders but not being them, such as Antigender, Offgender, etc. This can include genders where one’s gender could be described as “male/female/aporaine/outherine/xenine” but just is something else, and can’t be accurately described as those terms.
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This term was originally posted September 21st, 2022.
Anyways yeah had an idea for coining something like this for a while now with the whole “what’s a xenogender anyways” convo going on I noticed a sorta lack of a word people could find useful when coining or describing how their gender feels. There’s also a general lack of terms to describe how a term functions or how one uses terms so I kinda am on a move to coin some terms relating to that sometime idk when.
Anyways this term isn’t an umbrella term in itself it’s more like a bowl, if you feel like a term fits chuck it in, take it out if you want later, it’s just a word to help describe how a gender exists.
That being said this isn’t made to cover pre-existing gender terms that inspired this term (Kenochoric, Luxine, etc.) unless the original coiner explicitly says they’d consider it to be Anthidial. I just felt like MAYBE I’ll coin some things in the future that might fit the gap/blur between Outherine and Xenine since gender is weird, and kinda wanted a baseline term for myself to work off of, one that wasn’t absurdly broad like neogender lol. (I’ll probably coin some genders that could be considered anthidial to feminine, meaning they’re not actually fem but got the qualities, idk)
Like I said Anthidial is to be used like a bowl, not an umbrella. Terms coined with Anthidial in mind are generally seen as their own thing vs an “anthidial gender”. If you have food in a bowl you’re not looking at the bowl that much yeah? This term is mostly for potential classification reasons if any coiners feel like this fits something they might coin feel free to use it.
The wording explaining how something is anthidial may be as long or as short as one wants, it could be as simple as “[x] is anthidial, and therefore isn’t [gender term/umbrella]” and may go over some reasons whether or not the coiner has words to put to it. Anthidial isn’t really to be used as a gender in itself, but if someone feels like it’s a term that can describe their gender vs other terms, feel free to use it ig. It’s supposed to be flexible lol.
I’ll probably edit this at some point if anyone wants to put in any feedback that’d be great. Just noticing how long my rambling is getting vs the actual coining is, oops lol.
Oh yeah the flag was based off of the outherine and xenogender flags b/c I was originally gonna coin this as something else, but decided on this instead. The flag looked nice so I decided to use it anyways.
Oh yeah the name is based on Anthro+mid+ial, I was just looking at general root words and felt like this might fit the best. Since human concepts and all, middle of things, etc. idk how else to explain it lol.
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