Anonymous User asked: - does your system have more male, female, or nonbinary system members? is there any overlap between those?
Sips her chai and considers.
We all consider ourselves varying shades of femme. While physically we aren't the most traditionally femme. We are varying degrees of non-binary in that direction. Most of us use She/Her/They pronouns. A few of us accept It. We also have a Sidhe/Fae in here too. We have eschewed masculinity, not entirely, but, we grew up in that hyper masculine 80's/90's time period, of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jean Claude Van Damme, all at their peak testosterone. They were ubiquitous and inescapable, as well as the comic book stylings of Rob Liefeld. Sadly, the better portrayals of masculinity in media fell out of favor and these displays truly rose to prominence. It left a foul taste in our mouth and- we've kept what we felt was positive from other sources. Displays of masculinity that allowed for emotion, compassion, sympathy, and tears.
However, what was destroyed for us was any desire to identify with the labels of masculinity, to say nothing of our own transness, and that we felt more like we wanted to be our Aunt Barbara when we grew up than we ever did our father. To the direct question of is there overlap? Yes. Yes there is quite a bit. We are the sum of our parts, not any one part in particular. All of us in here are a complex sea of identity and emotions making up our each contiguous whole which in turn adds notes to the system entire.
We all consider ourselves varying shades of femme. While physically we aren't the most traditionally femme. We are varying degrees of non-binary in that direction. Most of us use She/Her/They pronouns. A few of us accept It. We also have a Sidhe/Fae in here too. We have eschewed masculinity, not entirely, but, we grew up in that hyper masculine 80's/90's time period, of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jean Claude Van Damme, all at their peak testosterone. They were ubiquitous and inescapable, as well as the comic book stylings of Rob Liefeld. Sadly, the better portrayals of masculinity in media fell out of favor and these displays truly rose to prominence. It left a foul taste in our mouth and- we've kept what we felt was positive from other sources. Displays of masculinity that allowed for emotion, compassion, sympathy, and tears.
However, what was destroyed for us was any desire to identify with the labels of masculinity, to say nothing of our own transness, and that we felt more like we wanted to be our Aunt Barbara when we grew up than we ever did our father. To the direct question of is there overlap? Yes. Yes there is quite a bit. We are the sum of our parts, not any one part in particular. All of us in here are a complex sea of identity and emotions making up our each contiguous whole which in turn adds notes to the system entire.