The difference is that Something like Retarded is used by someone else, someone who isn’t like that person. It was a clinical term used by clinical people who would never know and could never know the feeling. That is to say it wasn’t great to begin with. People who were “retarded” weren’t embracing that for what they were, it was imposed upon them by medical professionals who don’t really understand them as people (many were studying them like specimens). It was primed for derogatory use.

Neurodivergent on the other hand is a term embraced by the community, it’s used as a self-identifier. It doesn’t have the same oppressive connotations the others did. To turn it into a slur would be like turning transgender into a slur. It won’t work because the group identifies as that, and will keep using it.

I always thought their support of Queer and Neurodivergence felt fake or forced, like they were just using us so they could talk more about antisemitism, or so they could seem more respectable. So it doesn’t surprise me that they’d attack someone neurodivergent or queer if they think they could spin it as just another antisemite.

They don’t actually care about us, they’re just pretending to care so they can talk about what they want and seem like the good guys.

That’s exactly what I do when it’s cold out.

I mean you could still do it if it’s cold out. Also yeah, combat boots are awesome.

Ace colors are cute too.

I think the idea is they wear the cute pink ones underneath the pants and the boots. Outside is pants and combat boots, inside is the cute thigh highs.

That may be your opinion but there are people who do feel these labels are helpful and useful to them.

I think I need to remind people of this post and that this community doesn’t support gatekeeping and transphobia, including of the “Just asking questions variety”.

I personally find them to be very comfortable, and they do look awesome. Though not everyone might agree, different strokes for different folks.

Yeah the overlap from some of these labels can be a bit weird. In my opinion these don’t replace terms for gender identities, they are complementary to them. For example I am Isogender-Agender or Agender-Isogender. SImilar to how someone would say they are Trans-Nonbinary. You have a more broad label, paired with a more sharp, precise label.

Close, I’m AroAce

Just looked up Ultragender and it’s a thing.

Here’s the flag:

Is MOGAI a bad thing?

I mainly included gender modalities and I didn’t think to include individual identity labels until after I’d already filled it up and finalized the graphic. I didn’t save project files since I did it in Pinta.

Your argument is reminiscent of the trans people who claim that non-op trans women being proud of who they are is invalidating to them because they have genital dysphoria. That they believe non-ops are hurting the community.

Demisexual people and graysexual people are not hurting the Ace community. I can understand your feelings as a more sex-repulsed person myself but that’s not a valid excuse to invalidate their experiences or say they are hurting the community. That stance is extremely bigoted, and goes against everything we value as a community.

You think gatekeeping people’s identities and telling them they aren’t valid is okay? I can’t think of one circumstance where this shit is okay. This just seems like average gatekeeping transmed apologia. It’s not your place to tell others they aren’t valid.
Your apologia isn’t accepted here, and isn’t going to be, the removal of your other comments proves that.

I certainly do, and so did many other people on r/Agender that I talked to. Isogender and Absgender seemed mild popular among people there, as well as Centrgender, at least at the time of asking. I haven’t been on Reddit in a while and it’s possible those people have moved on as well.

I didn’t like that video honestly, wasn’t one of lily’s best moments in my opinion. Really just came across as trying to gatekeep identities and argue against people having more individualized identities, I’ve seen people using the same arguments about xenogenders and nonbinary people before.

Many of the arguments are also appeals to popularity, trying to dismiss their validity because they’re less popular or claiming they aren’t valid because “the only people talking about this are young kids on Tumblr” same bullshit arguments used against nonbinary identities in the earlier days.

If I’d included identities in addition to gender modalities I probably would have.

I only included gender modalities, I thought about including gender identities too but decided not too since the page was getting full and I knew people would just argue that those are trans and redundant. Maybe if I remake this I’ll add them though, along with Genderqueer, Non-Binary, Genderfluid, and many of the other common and less common ones.

Thanks, yeah I realized after I made the info-graphic and uploaded it and was transcribing that I accidentally made a stupid typo. I’d already closed the project though, to fix it I’d have to remake it largely from scratch.