Absorgender

Absorgender is a relatiogender that changes to conform to the genders of those around you. As you are around more people, even if some leave, they continue to add to the genders you feel. You remain as the genders that you have taken in until you hit a max of some sort. At that point you become like a blank slate, being only one gender (it doesn’t have to be agender or neutral, it can be any gender and the base gender can be different each time).

Alternate Names

 * Absorbgender

Pronunciation


/uhb-sOR-jEn-duhr/

Definitions

 * "a gender that is what the genders of those around you are. As you are around more people, even if some leave, they continue to add to the genders you feel. You stay the genders that you have taken in until you hit a max of some sort. At that point you become like a blank slate, being only one gender (it doesn’t have to be agender or neutral, it can be any gender and the base gender can be different each time)."  - pride-flags-for-us, 2015

If you absorb one gender more easily than other genders, you can replace gender in the term with the gender you absorb best. Like absorgirl, absornonbinary, absordemiboy, etc.

Absorgender is similar to the term echogender, though while echogender is a temporary feeling that changes after being in the presence of a different gender, in absorgender the genders build up.

Subsets

 * Absorboy
 * Absorgirl
 * Absorenby/Absornonbinary

Flags
The original flag was designed by Tumblr user nepkrisprite on July 9, 2016. The colors overlapping and mixing refers to absorgenders taking in the genders around them. The black in the center references how the color black absorbs all colors of light to produce the color black.

An absorgender flag was designed by an anonymous wiki user on October 15, 2020. Yellow represents abinary genders. Blue represents men, man-aligned, and masculine genders. Pink represents women, woman-aligned, and feminine genders. The colors in between—green, purple, and orange—represent blends or combinations of these genders, as well as having multiple genders as a result of collecting or absorbing them. There's also a version with a large brown circle in the center, representing gender absorption and maxing out. The brown circle was added on October 29, 2020.

Another absorgender flag was designed by wiki user (Redacted) on September 22, 2020. Blue represents masculinity, pink represents femininity, yellow, green, and purple represent gender neutral, non-binary, and xenic identities. Gray represents genderlessness. The overlapping circles represent how an absorgender person "absorbs" genders around them.

Two absorgender flags were designed by Bunkerone.

Another absorgender flag was designed by MasterGeniusLeCrunchMaster on December 26, 2020, inspired by the original.

Another absorgender flag was designed by ch3rrycurry. The blue represents water becasue absorgender is similar to a sponge int he sense that it "soaks up genders" like a sponge soaks up water. The creator made a versoin both with and without bubbles.

Another "warmcore" absorgender flag was designed by autistic-edits on January 26, 2021.

The absorboy, absorgirl, and absornonbinary flags were designed by Amnisty on November 17, 2020. For the absorgirl flag, the shades of pink in the background represent a sea of feminine genders, while the circle represents the person collecting said genders. This meaning is the same for absorboy and absornonbinary, but with masculine/non-binary genders instead.

Other
Tumblr user autistic-edits created a set of lemmy koopa absorgender icons.

Tumblr user mogai-headcanons created a set of absorgender-inclusive fictive headcanon icons, both with and without the character.