@LilMansDetritus@angeo_plo@kurom3owz why is this so confusing to you when you’re genderfluid? you already understand that gender isn’t determined by how someone dresses. gender identity and gender expression are separate; a man can dress femininely and still be a man, whether he’s cis or trans
@emzenigma @ashcth41@awildkirbee@socratays@wecanbefags dont act like i'm the one who doesn't understand. ur the one being ignorant abt our identity. we know what our identity means more than someone who isn’t pan ever could. ur truth becomes harmful when it tries to speak for us and define it, especially when ur not part of it.
@emzenigma @ashcth41@awildkirbee@socratays@wecanbefags and if u don’t get that, u can't understand the difference, it’s because ur not pan. and that’s fine. but stop trying to define something that doesn’t belong to you.
@emzenigma @ashcth41@awildkirbee@socratays@wecanbefags bi = attraction to more than one gender
pan = attraction regardless of gender
they’re not enemies. but they’re not the same either.
stop acting like pan is just a rebrand of bi. its not. trying to fold it under the bi umbrella erases the "gender doesn’t factor into it at all."
@emzenigma @ashcth41@awildkirbee@socratays@wecanbefags when someone who isn’t pan says pan falls under bi and only differs historically, it feels like erasure. most of us don’t resonate with bi being under that umbrella bcus that means it still centers gender. you don’t get to define us. 😭
@emzenigma @ashcth41@awildkirbee@socratays@wecanbefags people don’t identify as pan just to say they like “more than 2 genders.” they identify as pan because gender doesn’t influence their attraction. that’s not just historical context, that’s a real time identity difference.
@emzenigma @ashcth41@awildkirbee@socratays@wecanbefags no bcus it’s not black and white. i understand why ppl see it serves as a microlabel cus of the attraction to more than one gender. but others don’t, because pan is attraction regardless of gender. that’s the key difference. the historical context argument ur using is outdated
@ashcth41@awildkirbee@socratays@wecanbefags it’s cus ur trying to label us under bisexuality when most don’t agree with that, not because we have “no preference” but because gender isn’t apart of the equation. saying “no preference” still assumes gender is being acknowledged, pan is about liking ppl regardless
@ashcth41@awildkirbee@wecanbefags no because the whole point of being pan is that gender isn’t a factor in attraction at all. if someone does consider gender then that leans more into bisexuality