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Teratid: a gender identity related to the rejection and subversion of (prevailing) beauty standards.
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Etymology
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From English, "Terat-", meaning "Monstrous" + "-id", a Latin suffix meaning "pertaining to" in the concept of taxonomy. Coined by Gent (Gender-Jargon), June 2024.
The etymology of the term is a reference to how a lack of conformity to beauty standards is deeply punished, portrayed as evil, frightening and inhuman. It seeks to reclaim the idea that the subversion of beauty as "monstrous".
Teratid is a noun (Ex: "I am a Teratid"). The adjective form of is "teratine" (Ex: "My gender is teratine").
Elaboration
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Teratid is an atrinary, outherine gender identity. Additionally, it is a ringender, genoingender, ketuine and a type of genderfuckery (subversive in nature). Some may also experience it as an autonomous gender, reclingender and/or quingender. Teratid can also be a diastine gender identity.
Teratid is a broad label that encompasses the infinitely vast expressions that undermine societal beauty standards. Though Teratid experience is varied, all are unified by a rejection of common notions of beauty, a lack of conformance to the prescriptions of societal beauty standards and an active spirit of "fuckery" involved in the disruption and undermining of the oppressive standards contained within "beauty" as it is commonly known. It can involve the reclamation of monstrosity associated with the transgression of beauty standards, but it doesn't have to.
Beauty standards vary across time, society and culture. If the rejection and subversion of prevailing beauty standards in one's time period, society and culture is a gendered expression, it can be described as "Tertid".
With this in mind, there are many, many ways a Teratid individual go about subverting standards of beauty. Some examples include, but are not limited to:
embracing, celebrating and incorporating one's own physical, bodily traits that are not validated by prevailing beauty standards into their expression of their gender, whatever those may be.
embracing, celebrating and incorporating the concept of beauty within another culture that is accessible to the individual into their expression of their gender which conflicts with prevailing beauty standards in the society in which they live.
embracing, celebrating and incorporating the concept of beauty within a subculture in which the individuals participates into their expression of their gender which conflicts with prevailing standards of beauty in the society in which they live.
expressions of gender non-conformity and genderfuckery carried out with the intention of subverting beauty standards.
rejecting prescribed beauty standards, instead embracing their own sense of beauty and what it entails.
deliberate aesthetic homeliness, dreadfulness, obscenity, eeriness, wickedness, repulsiveness and grotesqueness as a gendered expression.
[PT: embracing, celebrating and incorporating one's own physical, bodily traits that are not validated by prevailing beauty standards into their expression of their gender, whatever those may be. embracing, celebrating and incorporating the concept of beauty within another culture that is accessible to the individual into their expression of their gender which conflicts with prevailing beauty standards in the society in which they live. embracing, celebrating and incorporating the concept of beauty within a subculture in which the individuals participates into their expression of their gender which conflicts with prevailing standards of beauty in the society in which they live. expressions of gender non-conformity and genderfuckery carried out with the intention of subverting beauty standards. rejecting prescribed beauty standards, instead embracing their own sense of beauty and what it entails. deliberate aesthetic homeliness, dreadfulness, obscenity, eeriness, wickedness, repulsiveness and grotesqueness as a gendered expression. ./. End PT]
Simply put, Teratid:
is an atrinary, outherine/disatine gender identity.
is a rejection of societal beauty standards.
is a subversion of societal beauty standards.
involves acceptance, joy and comfort of traits identified within oneself that are not consider "beautiful" by society.
may or may not reclaim the ideas of monstrosity associated with things not designated "beautiful" by society.
may or may not intersect with and/or be rooted in one's queerness, disability, fatness, sex, race, culture, subculture, spirituality, etc.
may or may not involve a liberated, self-defined sense of beauty.
may or may not involve aesthetics that conjure thoughts and feelings of dread, fear, disgust, shock, indignation, discomfort, hideousness, tackiness, ostentation, crudeness, offensiveness, ugliness, etc., as well as expressions that are perceived as "evil" or are associated with "evil".
[PT: is an atrinary, outherine/disatine gender identity. is a rejection of societal beauty standards.is a subversion of societal beauty standards. involves acceptance, joy and comfort of traits identified within oneself that are not consider "beautiful" by society. may or may not reclaim the ideas of monstrosity associated with things not designated "beautiful" by society. may or may not intersect with and/or be rooted in one's queerness, disability, fatness, intersexness, race, culture, subculture, spirituality, etc. may or may not involve a liberated, self-defined sense of beauty. may or may not involve aesthetics that conjure thoughts and feelings of dread, fear, disgust, shock, indignation, discomfort, hideousness, tackiness, ostentation, crudeness, offensiveness, homeliness, etc., as well as expressions that are perceived as "evil" or are associated with "evil". ./. End PT]
Pride Flag
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The pride flag was colored-picked from a picture of a common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) [PT: (Taraxacum officinale) ./. End PT], all from different portions of the plant. The olive green stripe was taken from it's foliage, the yellow stripe taken from the flower petals, the white stripe from the seed's pappus, the peach stripe from the stem and the brown stripe from the exterior of it's seeds.
A dandelion was chosen to represent this identity due to how dandelion is considered a "weed", even though it is a useful and charming flower. To a lawn keeper or florist, a weed is unwanted, unsightly and "bad". It does not conform to the standards of a "beautiful" flower.
In this case, the humble dandelion is considered undesirable due to the concept of a pristine, short grass lawn and the concept of floral design, despite it's various culinary uses, use in herbal remedies, role in pollination and their quaint appeal. Even though it not being a flower that is considered "beautiful" and instead, a "weed", the dandelion is inherently valuable not just in it's utility, but it's mere existence, much like an individual who does not conform to prevailing standards of beauty has inherent value by simply existing.
