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Image ID: A pride flag with nine stripes, with the two stripes touching the center stripe smaller than the rest. The first five colors are green, lime, tea green, watermelon pink, and blush. The rest of the stripes mirror the top, starting with watermelon pink.

🌳🌲 Plantthing 🍃🌷

🌿    ۪  ۫  ੭ –  A thinggender where your gender feels like or is connected to being a plant and a thing.

Image ID: A pride flag with nine stripes, with the two stripes touching the center stripe smaller than the rest. The first five colors are moss green, olive green, sage green, wine red, and pastel red. The rest of the stripes mirror the top, starting with wine red.

🌳🌲 Plantmonthing 🌵🌹

Plant + monster + thing

🌿    ۪  ۫  ੭ –  A thinggender where your gender feels like or is connected to being a plant monster (examples include a monster girl, a plant themed pokemon/digimon, or a floran from starbound) and a thing.

☀🌙 Sun + Moon Bi Lesbian + Bi Gay ⭐🌠

✨    ۪  ۫  ੭ –  Aesthetic flags for bi lesbians and bi gays who feel connected to the sun or moon, feel like their aesthetic is tied to the sun or moon, or can be simply used as fun descriptors. These can also be used as general sun/moon mspec lesbian/gay flags if so wished.

In order: sun bilesb | moon bilesb sun bigay | moon bigay

CATPAWiC

A xenogender connected to cat paws.

Malewife lesboy and malewife veldigirl

>>  The Iunctian System <<

This system is used to describe the level of connection one has with a term / label / identity. I am personally using these categories to organize my gender hoard. They can also be used as genders in and of themselves, to describe genders that are felt with different levels of intensity. (Etymology: “iunctio” the latin word for connection). 

Suiric: An identity that cannot be separated from oneself at all - a 100% complete connection to the identity. May also describe a gender that is the absolute essence of oneself, one’s soul, or that encompasses one’s entire identity. (Etymology: “sui” the latin word for self)

Ardoric: An identity that one has a strong, intense, passionate connection with. May also describe a gender that is characterized by passion and intensity. (Etymology: “ardor” meaning “extreme vigor or energy, depth of feeling, intensity”)

Affinic: An identity that one has an affinity for, a significant but not very strong connection. May also describe a gender that is characterized by a more mild passion, or a casual connection to one’s sense of self. (Etymology: “affinity” meaning “likeness based on relationship or causal connection”)

Admiric: An identity that one has a deep appreciation for, but very little or very loose connection to. May also describe a gender that is barely felt, or is only  appreciated but not connected to. (Etymology: “admiration” meaning “a feeling of great approval and liking”)

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[Image Description: 4 images of different flags representing 4 different types of identity connection - Suiric, Ardoric, Affinic, and Admiric, respectively. The Suiric flag has 3 circles within each other, ranging from purple to red. There is a red horizontal line that stretches across the flag, matching the bright reddish color of the innermost circle. There is a green, fiery graphic in the center of the flag that represents a soul. The Ardoric flag two circles on a darker teal background, the outer circle being a lighter greenish-teal and the inner circle being a light green. There is an off-white heart in the center of the circles. An orange chain stretches horizontally across the entire flag. The Affinic flag contains 3 triangles within each other on a pale yellow background. The outer triangle is yellow, the middle triangle is orange, and the center triangle is a slightly darker, reddish orange. There is a double sided, horizontal swirl design that is connected by a third swirl in the middle. It is the same pale yellow as the background and stretches across the inner and middle triangles. The Admiric flag has 5 vertical stripes, which are symmetrical and are 3 different shades of the blue with the lightest shade in the center of the flag. There is a purple orchid in the center of the flag. End image description]. 

Flag alternatives under the cut!

They insist that we “imply a sexuality cannot exist where non-men love non-men”, and while that definition is wonky on its own, it perfectly portrays their completely biphobic and incorrect view of multi-spectrum attraction and bi/pan/poly/omni people.

If you hear the word “mspec” and immediately think of ‘attraction to men’, that is a problem.

If you hear the word “mspec” and immediately think of ‘attraction to women’, that is a problem.

If you hear the word “mspec” and immediately think of ‘attraction to men and women’, that is a problem.

When we talk about breaking biphobic stereotypes and ripping ourselves from the constraints of the binary, this is what we refer to. Read the bisexual manifesto. Do not assume that we are based around “two genders”. Do not assume there are two genders. Do not assume men and women are the foundation of bisexuality, and that to be bisexual you /must/ be attracted to either or both.

Fluid sexuality exists, and sexualities where preferences or lack of certain attraction exist. By assuming mspec lesbians exist only to try and “include men in a sexuality that does not involve them”, completely glosses over lesbianism and its history with transmisogyn(oir), bisexual lesbians who have taken part and fully participated in the foundations and advancements of lesbian diversity, and forgets mspec lesbians who are not attracted to men.

And even if all or most mspec lesbians were attracted to men, who cares?

Pushing away those affiliated with men, bisexual or not, lesbian or not, trans or not, is the result of political lesbianism and lesbian separatism, a dangerous and violent movement.

The reason you are threatened by the idea of being in the same community as mspec lesbians is the same reason bisexuals were shoved from lesbian protests, marches, clubs, communities, and spaces.

The reason you are threatened by the idea of being in the same community as mspec lesbians is the same reason trans women were shoved from lesbian protests, marches, clubs, communities, and spaces.

Bisexuals were seen as traitors, women (and even bisexuals who were not women) who sucked up to the patriarchy and could never be radical enough to end “male supremacy” as long as they continued to have relations with men.

The myth of “men infiltrating lesbian spaces” was a transmisogynistic dogwhistle used to promote harassment, violence, and drastic exclusion of transfems from sapphic and lesbian circles. We were the “males” who reigned “supreme”.

Even lesbians who had previously been affiliated with men through personal, romantic, or sexual relations were tossed out.

Gold star lesbianism, political lesbianism, lesbian separatism, TERF dogwhistles—so many different ways to describe the same thing; they are tools to oppress marginalized peoples and harm trans women (especially those who are gender-nonconforming, non-passing, and black & brown).

So, let it sink in.

If you are so bothered by mspec lesbians and “our huge insane scary attraction to men!!!!”, maybe ponder on who or what made you think this way. Because it may just be a reflection of what you think of bi/pan/poly/omni sapphics & trans people as a whole.

If you are threatened by sharing a community with us, you are also threatened by sharing a community with trans & bisexual people. In your eyes, anyone close to men is a traitor or anyone being close to what they presume a man is is inherently evil and predatory.

No matter how many times you yell “just use the sapphic label”, it will not stop you mono exclusbians from being extremely bigoted towards people you claim to be similar to.

The sapphic community is dominated by people who think they are “more sapphic” and “more pure” than mspec sapphics. This is a problem. You are the problem.