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disasterhimbo said: @soaringsearingphoenix Exactly! :)

soaringsearingphoenix said: If it’s a color spectrum it’s less of a perfect rainbow more like those boxes in paint that you can scroll over to get the right shade. Sure red and blue are in there somewhere, but there’s green and pink and purple and all of them can be either strong and saturated or fade to grey

soaringsearingphoenix said: If you want to keep it in math-y visual terms, you could also say it’s not a linear spectrum, it has more dimensions. More coordinates. It’s not just “further left is masculine and further right is feminine” or whatever, there’s also up and down and forwards and back

soaringsearingphoenix said: @prussia-strange-saffron thats a great analogy! And even then there are different shades of colors that we still call “blue”, and same with “red” and “pink”!

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disasterhimbo said: A better analogy I heard is that if girls are red/pink and boys are blue, some people will be those colors, and some people will be purple, but there’s more colors that aren’t between red and blue that some people will be

disasterhimbo said: @soaringsearingphoenix thank you! You articulated that much better than me :) not everyone is necessarily on a spectrum between boy and girl

soaringsearingphoenix said: @prussia-strange-saffron i totally agree with you here. People love trying to describe feelings in math terms because it’s helpful to simplify or to make visuals for it, but rarely does that produce the most accurate description. Especially for a topic as complex as gender

disasterhimbo said: I mean, it’s not exactly between two points but whatever

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