Also zhe and xe sound stupid and reek of Xtreme Kool Letterz.
edited 24th Oct '16 6:25:56 PM by PushoverMediaCritic
Yep, although I'd add a second perpendicular biaxial plane indicating sexual and romantic attraction, where asexuality indicates a lack of sexual desire, rather than the orientation of said interest (perhaps it may be useful to coin a new word to distinguish the two, even if asexual would accurately describe someone who has a <0,0,0,0> value vector ). Such a scale can't account for more narrow terms like being "demisexual" or "autochorissosexual", but I would personally argue that it may be more beneficial to recognize those kinds of classifications as individual personality-based experiences that multiple people have in common than be a bona fide sexuality, in the same way "I prefer tall twinks" or "I prefer butch women with short hair" is not a distinct sexual orientation of gay, if that made sense.
I don't know about "zhe", but I've been told the "x" in "xe" is essentially supposed to be a metasyntactic variable, the same way "Mx" can stand for "Mr" or "Ms" with binary-gendered people. It's not even supposed to be pronounced sometimes.
edited 24th Oct '16 6:34:36 PM by AlleyOop
edited 24th Oct '16 6:56:29 PM by thatother1dude
As a person who is currently floating about somewhere on the asexual continuum (please send me coordinates if you happen to find me), I would like to add, from personal experience, that a lack of desire isn't the, er... let's call it an "issue," even though it's anything but. The issue is a lack of direction. As in, a compass with no needle. As in me staring down at my junk going "okay, what do you want?" and not getting an answer.
edited 24th Oct '16 8:39:18 PM by SalFishFin
That's a fantastic example...
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Pretty much, this yes.
Personally I just use "they" in these types of situations because it's a catch-all and most people i've run into have no problems with it or sometimes even specifically request it.
Part of the problem is that I feel the neopronouns will probably fail to catch on in the long run in the mainstream, since they only really work well as written word and not so well when spoken, as you said.
That's sort of the problem the latin-american social justice community is running into right now by attempting to push "latinx" as a substitute to be inclusive to nonbinary latin-american people. It's catching on in social justice circles, and I find myself using it more and more, but it's just not something I ever see catching on with non US latin-americans at all, because our languages are gendered and we don't really have a conception of those languages as non-gendered. Not to mention the liability of it being seen as an attempt from US people to dictate the social justice conversations in other countries with a completely different history and social reality, which is a sentiment I've seen expressed often before.
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Anyways I'm sure you all know this already but I just found out SU is set to come back sometime in November. Glad we won't be waiting long.
"Gem Harvest" premiering in November apparently comes from this post on the CN Facebook
. Frankly that's so remote a source that I wouldn't rely on it, but it's long enough anyway.
Of course, every Cartoon Network show goes on hiatus for most of December, so the next run of episodes might not be so long.
Still, I'm pretty hype for another half hour special. It should be good. More Peridot and Lapis, especially together is always a good thing. They're good apart, but together make an excellent Boke and Tsukkomi Routine.
I love how Steven doesn't give carving a pumpkin in front of his pumpkin creation or eating the watermelon guy who saved him a second thought
. It's kinda dark but food is food.
Speaking of dark has this been posted already?
Oooh, Realistic proportions.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.The inverted pentagram Sigil Spam felt gratuitous until I realized it was standing in for the Crystal Gem star. Which is everywhere.
Me and my friend's collaborative webcomic: Forged MenI don't know if any mention this already, but Mark
is watching Steven Universe now.

I'd say quantified human sexuality, regarding male/female attraction, is a two-dimensional vector, contained to a single quadrant. Normalizing that vector gives you a unit vector quantifying sexual orientation. Asexuality is the null vector.
(I came up with this analogy months ago and don't care how few people understand it.)
If someone calls themselves "non-binary" they just mean "I don't see myself as male or female." They can think of themselves as having a gender between male and female, but can just as well identify as one completely unlike male or female—or none at all. This gender may have no name, but its significance is essentially internal so it doesn't really need one.
The name refers to being outside "the gender binary/dichotomy": the idea that all people are male or female.
edited 24th Oct '16 6:26:13 PM by thatother1dude