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And I don't even know what Aliagender means. Is that Non-gender?
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Serious stuff, take this seriously.
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This looks like something someone made up to troll
shnangyboos posted...
Serious stuff, take this seriously.
It may not be important to you but it's fiercely important to some people.
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UnfairRepresent posted...
I don't even know what Aliagender means.

It's apparently a non-binary identity that exists as completely distinct from man/woman and the usual language surrounding it

Makes sense enough and I'm not going to tell people what they are or aren't even if it's overwhelming to grasp for the outsiders
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UnfairRepresent posted...
It may not be important to you but it's fiercely important to some people.


I wasn't sold, but then you said it was "fiercely" important.
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shnangyboos posted...
I wasn't sold, but then you said it was "fiercely" important.
CE was the wrong place to make this topic

AnsestralRecall posted...
It's apparently a non-binary identity that exists as completely distinct from man/woman and the usual language surrounding it

Makes sense enough and I'm not going to tell people what they are or aren't even if it's overwhelming to grasp for the outsiders

So the others are like an inconclusive mix of both genders but Aliagender specifically NOT man or woman?
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AFAIK, It's mostly a different term, to avoid the "Bi" prefix, which could be seen as enforcing the stereotype that male and female are the norm, and everything else is outside of that norm.

It's a sensitive topic, and if someone thinks that Bigender doesn't feel right, but Androgyne does, that's all that matters.

I came in here about to say androgynous means they look between male and female, and can easily pass as either with minimal effort.

Then I saw the chart that reminds me of those old age of empires flow charts. I'm so confused... tho I like how epicene is almost a hurricane symbol.
man its hard to keep up with all this new terminology at times... lol
Some of these seem made up, or they're super duper niche. I'm gay and never heard of most of those
SammyLiimex posted...
Some of these seem made up, or they're super duper niche. I'm gay and never heard of most of those
Tbh, I feel like stuff like this fragments the LGBT, as it just seems so wild to make something so pointlessly complicated and segregated. I'll never understand the need to make so many labels for what you are instead of just stating your sexuality is irrelevant. Like who you like.
Androgyne is someone who expresses androgyny. Ambiguous gender.

Bigender is someone who is both male and female or at least two other genders.

Epicene is similar to Androgyne but is definitionly wider.
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pazzy posted...
Tbh, I feel like stuff like this fragments the LGBT, as it just seems so wild to make something so pointlessly complicated and segregated. I'll never understand the need to make so many labels for what you are instead of just stating your sexuality is irrelevant. Like who you like.
I mean it's easy to say that if you don't care about it

But it's like going to a Texan and saying "Why are you so complicated and segregated? You're American, everything else is irrelevant."

Or going up to an Irish guy and saying "You're European, why segregate yourself with this Irish nonsense? It's irrevelant"

Or a protestant and saying "You're Christian, stop being so divisive."

In fact I remember Christopher Hitchens talking about being stopped at a red light in Belfast and having a man with a balaclava point a knife at him and say "Are you Catholic or Protestant!?" and he goes "I'm Jewish Atheist."
"..... Well are you a Catholic Jewiesh Atheist or a Protestant Jewish Atheist?"

People's identities can be very sacrosanct. They're not trying to "have a successful movement" they're trying to be themselves. I get why it matters and I'm trying to do better but as the other user said:

ZevLoveDOOM posted...
man its hard to keep up with all this new terminology at times... lol
^ Yeah. I really struggle to keep up
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SammyLiimex posted...
Some of these seem made up, or they're super duper niche. I'm gay and never heard of most of those

Yeah I can't be bothered to learn this shit. I'll just leave it at if someone tells me they are that this or the other Allright cool ill try to remember

Question though is bigender like gender fluid at all?
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UnfairRepresent posted...
I mean it's easy to say that if you don't care about it

But it's like going to a Texan and saying "Why are you so complicated and segregated? You're American, everything else is irrelevant."

Or going up to an Irish guy and saying "You're European, why segregate yourself with this Irish nonsense? It's irrevelant"

Or a protestant and saying "You're Christian, stop being so divisive."

In fact I remember Christopher Hitchens talking about being stopped at a red light in Belfast and having a man with a balaclava point a knife at him and say "Are you Catholic or Protestant!?" and he goes "I'm Jewish Atheist."
"..... Well are you a Catholic Jewiesh Atheist or a Protestant Jewish Atheist?"

People's identities can be very sacrosanct. They're not trying to "have a successful movement" they're trying to be themselves. I get why it matters and I'm trying to do better but as the other user said:
This is potentially condescending , and I don't think you even meant it this way. It's such an entire whiff on understanding what I'm saying that I'm almost stunned.

Yes. That would be a good thing. If Americans spent less time trying to say how they're different and how they were, we'd probably be in a better place. The only reason that it really matters to say you're a Texan would be because you're denoting something about your physical location and giving a specification for when it's actually relevant to a conversation. Your sexuality doesn't denote anything about you that makes it worth making an entire category for and is actually regressive rather than progressive.

Different sects aren't even halfway the same thing. Because the different sects literally don't believe in the same things necessarily. But even if you're a protestant, you're *still* a Christian. The history doesn't even fit with what you're arguing, because people that are homosexual for instance aren't a different sect of sexuality. They aren't a set of beliefs that they CHOOSE to be if we're actually going by what LBGT was even made for.

What does this have to do with what was said?

Which you completely ignored my last statement. Love who you love-- which is entirely what LBGT was about. Not the labels of *what* you love. Making it this complicated doesn't do us (and yes, I literally mean us, because I've made it clear that I'm not heterosexual in plenty of posts) any real favors because people start ignoring you when even people from the LGBT don't know what it means.
Sufferedphoenix posted...
Yeah I can't be bothered to learn this shit. I'll just leave it at if someone tells me they are that this or the other Allright cool ill try to remember

Question though is bigender like gender fluid at all?
Right. If someone says it, the only thing I can do is shrug and say "fine" whatever makes them happy is cool, but needing to actually grab a chart to try to remember all of this is beyond ridiculous.
You don't choose to be Texan or choose who your ancestors were. It's still important to a lot of people.

I'm not arrogant enough to tell them it doesn't matter because I don't care.

I like Mass Effect, doesn't mean I like The Hunger Games and it would irk me if someone told me that doesn't matter because they're both sci-fi so I'm being needlessly divisive.

Different things are important to different people.

My mom was adopted and it massively bothers her that she is unable to track her biological ancestory. I don't give a shit about my ancestory.

Who are you to decide which of us is right? We're different. We identify differently.

If someone is non-binary and that's important to them, it doesn't bother me at all and I want to respect that rather than tell them it doesn't matter because it doesn't matter to me and they need to stop segregating things I don't care about. That's Jacob-Rees Mogg level
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UnfairRepresent posted...
You don't choose to be Texan or choose who your ancestors were. It's still important to a lot of people.

I'm not arrogant enough to tell them it doesn't matter because I don't care.

I like Mass Effect, doesn't mean I like The Hunger Games and it would irk me if someone told me that doesn't matter because they're both sci-fi so I'm being needlessly divisive.

Different things are important to different people.

My mom was adopted and it massively bothers her that she is unable to track her biological ancestory. I don't give a shit about my ancestory.

Who are you to decide which of us is right? We're different. We identify differently.

If someone is non-binary and that's important to them, it doesn't bother me at all and I want to respect that rather than tell them it doesn't matter because it doesn't matter to me and they need to stop segregating things I don't care about. That's Jacob-Rees Mogg level

Let me play devils advocate here. I don't really care one way or another but I think I'm following what he is saying more than you so far.

You mention the liking mass effect but not hunger games. Would you make up a term for that or simply state you like this but don't like that
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It's not like we are required to learn these symbols and definitions off by heart.
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UnfairRepresent posted...
You don't choose to be Texan or choose who your ancestors were. It's still important to a lot of people.

I'm not arrogant enough to tell them it doesn't matter because I don't care.

I like Mass Effect, doesn't mean I like The Hunger Games and it would irk me if someone told me that doesn't matter because they're both sci-fi so I'm being needlessly divisive.

Different things are important to different people.

My mom was adopted and it massively bothers her that she is unable to track her biological ancestory. I don't give a shit about my ancestory.

Who are you to decide which of us is right? We're different. We identify differently.

If someone is non-binary and that's important to them, it doesn't bother me at all and I want to respect that rather than tell them it doesn't matter because it doesn't matter to me and they need to stop segregating things I don't care about. That's Jacob-Rees Mogg level
You do, however, choose to act as though being Texas doesn't make you the same as other Americans. The main reason that people even bring up the differences with states is a combination of culture and location.

It certainly sounded like that to me.

This... Comparison makes no sense. Because Mass Effect isn't who you are. The Hunger Games never had various moments in history where they were physically and mentally oppressed for being born and liking Sci-Fi (and by extension The Hunger Games).

Because she wants to know where she came from. You are really just showing that you don't understand at all. On a fundamental level even.

Once again, you have completely missed the point.

Which is not the counter to the argument I first presented and you have completely made a strawman argument.

UnfairRepresent posted...
You don't choose to be Texan or choose who your ancestors were. It's still important to a lot of people.

Just to use your example, I think it's more being confused by someone who gets offended by being called a New Yorker, even though they're from NY, and the only thing you know about them is that they're from New York, but prefer to be known by the street they live on.

"I'm not a New Yorker! I'm a Main Street of Syossett in Nassau County on Long Island in New Yorker!"

Many "identifiers" have both broad and extremely narrow definitions.

As long as "both sides" aren't rude about it, and whatever mis-identification happens is made with no malice, and is corrected with no return malice, I'll call you whatever makes you the most comfortable.

You gotta laugh. That is the one thing at the end of your life you will not wish you did less of.
Sufferedphoenix posted...
Let me play devils advocate here. I don't really care one way or another but I think I'm following what he is saying more than you so far.

You mention the liking mass effect but not hunger games. Would you make up a term for that or simply state you like this but don't like that
I do the latter but don't take issue with people who don't.

See: Trekkies/Dwarfers etc.

Point is, I think the approach of "I don't care and suspect most people don't care so it doesn't matter since it doesn't matter to me, why are you so difficult?" is pretty devoid of tact.

bigblu89 posted...
Just to use your example, I think it's more being confused by someone who gets offended by being called a New Yorker, even though they're from NY, and the only thing you know about them is that they're from New York, but prefer to be known by the street they live on.

"I'm not a New Yorker! I'm a Main Street of Syossett in Nassau County on Long Island in New Yorker!"


That wouldn't bother me at all/



As long as "both sides" aren't rude about it, and whatever mis-identification happens is made with no malice, and is corrected with no return malice, I'll call you whatever makes you the most comfortable.
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UnfairRepresent posted...
I do the latter but don't take issue with people who don't.

See: Trekkies/Dwarfers etc.

Point is, I think the approach of "I don't care and suspect most people don't care so it doesn't matter since it doesn't matter to me, why are you so difficult?" is pretty devoid of tact.

Not exactly thr same. Saying I'm a trekkie would be similar to saying I'm gay. I like star trek/men I was talking a more extending term to say you like this but not and while we are at it throw in some personality traits I have that I feel are influenced by this into the term

As said idc people are gonna do what they want regardless of if I care or not

I was trying to explain what he was saying in a different manner

To whoever it was that said it though correct me if my analogy is off
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I think we are reaching the point where the analogies have stopped being helpful.
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UnfairRepresent posted...
You don't choose to be Texan

Tell that to all the Californians moving there to become texans and drive up prices
pazzy posted...
which is entirely what LBGT was about

No

Trans being part of it has nothing to do with "who they like" it's "who they are" and to try to word it how you did is just more trans erasure from queer populations

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AnsestralRecall posted...
No

Trans being part of it has nothing to do with "who they like" it's "who they are" and to try to word it how you did is just more trans erasure from queer populations
Way to entirely miss everything that was said in that paragraph.

What you just did is attempt to isolate yourself in the exact way I mentioned.
Recognizing that different populations within a community have differing needs isn't enough attempting to isolate oneself

It's just fucking true

It's this milquetoast cry of pandering to cishet society that's the issue. We can instead demand that we get treated as human even when they don't get us, when they get overwhelmed by labels, when it's not convenient for them, etc.

Fuck assimilation to please them

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AnsestralRecall posted...
Recognizing that different populations within a community have differing needs isn't enough attempting to isolate oneself

It's just fucking true

It's this milquetoast cry of pandering to cishet society that's the issue. We can instead demand that we get treated as human even when they don't get us, when they get overwhelmed by labels, when it's not convenient for them, etc.

Fuck assimilation to please them
Having acceptance from people without discrimination are differing needs?

pazzy posted...
Having acceptance from people without discrimination are differing needs?

Don't be fuckin dense
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AnsestralRecall posted...
Don't be fuckin dense
That's not an answer to the question.
Man its so weird that a concept as vaguely defined as gender would have so many subsets across the worlds cultures!

Androgyne: Androgynous. I think we all know this one.
Bigender: Someone whose gender compromises of two genders. I think more of androgyne playing with the scale while bigender having both exist simultaneously.
Epicene: Multiple interpretations but someone with a lack of gender distinction. The opposite of androgynous.

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I think regardless of which of the 32 different symbols represents you, the simple solution to this is

When someone tells you theyre one of these, just say Oh ok. Cool.
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I would look at it the same way I do different cultures and nationalities.

Am I expected to know everything about them all, speak their languages, and recognise their flags? No.

Should I be able to behave in a reasonable way that causes no one to be hurt or embarrassed? Yes.
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pazzy posted...
That's not an answer to the question.

Acceptance without discrimination looks a lot different for a cis gay man than it would for a lesbian trans woman.

Trying to distill different groups needs into a neat little package doesn't work.
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all the genderfluid signs look badass, imo
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Looks like a new set of Unown Pokmon.

:^)
Looks like unown
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Bigender vs. Bigendian is going to confuse me more than the two very different common meanings of MTG.
AnsestralRecall posted...
Acceptance without discrimination looks a lot different for a cis gay man than it would for a lesbian trans woman.

Trying to distill different groups needs into a neat little package doesn't work.
No it doesn't. Stop.
UnfairRepresent posted...
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And I don't even know what Aliagender means. Is that Non-gender?
This graphic is from the Tumblr era...
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pazzy posted...
No it doesn't. Stop.

Yes, it does. I'm going to make the bold assumption that you're a gay white (demographically likely for this site) cis man and so you simply don't understand that yes, there are very different forms acceptance without discrimination takes for especially trans people.

It's easy and clippable to just say "acceptance and no discrimination" but when you're not qualified to state what the discrimination is because you don't experience it you don't get to say the needs are the same.
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This topic is starting to make my trans lesbian ass very uncomfortable
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AnsestralRecall posted...
Yes, it does. I'm going to make the bold assumption that you're a gay white (demographically likely for this site) cis man and so you simply don't understand that yes, there are very different forms acceptance without discrimination takes for especially trans people.

It's easy and clippable to just say "acceptance and no discrimination" but when you're not qualified to state what the discrimination is because you don't experience it you don't get to say the needs are the same.
Incorrect. Your bold assumption is goddamn wrong. Like I said before. Stop what you're fucking doing. You are wrong.

You are still wrong. So very very wrong.
I mean theyre not tho?
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BrohammedAli posted...
I mean theyre not tho?
Oh, so I'm a gay white man? News to me.

People should be treated the same regardless of things. I
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