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13 years ago
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Be sure to check out our website: Genderfluid
I am glad to see we are still getting new members to the group!
It makes me so happy to have created a group where everyone can come together and support each other.
It just seems like yesterday that this was just a tiny little group with just my friends and a few other people as members!
I just wanted to let new members and old members alike, that if anyone needs advice or if anyone has any questions, feel free to either note me or the co-owner. We'd like this group to feel secure and as open minded as possible.
Another thing I've been seeing on the shouts is people asking if they are genderfluid or not and I have been responding with, "That's the great thing about being genderfluid. It's not about being or not being. It's just being completely normal and choosing to have a label to help describe yourself. If you want to be considered so, then be so!" because I feel that even if you are genderfluid by all "text book terms", you shouldn't have to label yourself if you don't want to! It's all about choice in how you want yourself to be seen by others and labels are totally a choice.
One last thing I've been seeing on and off throughout our shouts is people comparing sex and gender.
Such as, "Wouldn't this be herm, not genderfluid?" and let me just put this as simply as possible. No, being a herm has nothing to do with being genderfluid.
To explain it so everyone understands, being a hermaphrodite means that you have both male and female genitals. Being genderfluid means that you think of yourself in terms of being male and female (or anywhere in between). It's all about knowing the difference between physically having both a penis and a vag and mentally perceiving yourself as someone with two or sometimes even more genders.
For example, a lot of the herm characters I see on furaffinity often "see" themselves as just female (despite some being more dominant or submissive than others)
But someone who is born a girl or a boy who is genderfluid sees themselves as both a girl and a boy or anywhere in between at any given time.
I hope that helps some of you who are new to this term and I look forward to seeing more members come in as well as current members making this group the amazing thing it is!
You peeps are the ones that make this group awesome! Keep it up!
Love,
It makes me so happy to have created a group where everyone can come together and support each other.
It just seems like yesterday that this was just a tiny little group with just my friends and a few other people as members!
I just wanted to let new members and old members alike, that if anyone needs advice or if anyone has any questions, feel free to either note me or the co-owner. We'd like this group to feel secure and as open minded as possible.
Another thing I've been seeing on the shouts is people asking if they are genderfluid or not and I have been responding with, "That's the great thing about being genderfluid. It's not about being or not being. It's just being completely normal and choosing to have a label to help describe yourself. If you want to be considered so, then be so!" because I feel that even if you are genderfluid by all "text book terms", you shouldn't have to label yourself if you don't want to! It's all about choice in how you want yourself to be seen by others and labels are totally a choice.
One last thing I've been seeing on and off throughout our shouts is people comparing sex and gender.
Such as, "Wouldn't this be herm, not genderfluid?" and let me just put this as simply as possible. No, being a herm has nothing to do with being genderfluid.
To explain it so everyone understands, being a hermaphrodite means that you have both male and female genitals. Being genderfluid means that you think of yourself in terms of being male and female (or anywhere in between). It's all about knowing the difference between physically having both a penis and a vag and mentally perceiving yourself as someone with two or sometimes even more genders.
For example, a lot of the herm characters I see on furaffinity often "see" themselves as just female (despite some being more dominant or submissive than others)
But someone who is born a girl or a boy who is genderfluid sees themselves as both a girl and a boy or anywhere in between at any given time.
I hope that helps some of you who are new to this term and I look forward to seeing more members come in as well as current members making this group the amazing thing it is!
You peeps are the ones that make this group awesome! Keep it up!
Love,
Kittfur
~kittfur
A vey well put statement indeed on how to discern between gender fluid and herm--mind if I repost to my own FA with credit to ya? I've had a few folks curiously inquire and, let's face it, I'm a lousy explainer o' things sometimes XD
mason.blue
~mason.blue
Agreed - very well spoken indeed!
NeonicInk
~neonicink
Thank you! And go ahead! :3 That would be awesome!
Kittfur
~kittfur
*glomps* sankyuu!!! ^_^ I'm hoping this will help me explain that while I have a definite, physically "femme" appearance, my brain is wired "male" at times XD while that doesn't mean I wanna dingdong (*snortlaughgiggle*) its my way of explaining my protectiveness of those I care about....especially teh ladies ^_^....and why I'm of the type who'd show up with flowers and get the door picking my girl up for a date---yknow, those things that are often traditionally labeled as the "guy's" job LOL what can I say...I might be little but I'm a teddy bear ;)
