the "it's just a phase" diagram
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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This shit should be titled “it’s just a phase”
Your joke is funnier than the OP.
My dude you ought to steal this and add it to the chart and repost as your own.
when I thought of it, I thought to myself "this is either going to be massively misconstrued as me trying to be a dick to trans people, or I'm a comedy genius, lets find out", rad that it's the latter
sidebar: I also considered "I Can't Believe It's Not a Phase Diagram". so, whoever steals this next, you're welcome, not one but two good title ideas!
Breaking: Scientists discover new Gender Plasma state of gender.
If you crush me, then reheat me to just below my melting point, then quench me back then crush me some more, my microgender structure gets stretched and tensed with smaller and smaller grains. I become harder and harder until my yield strength is equal to my ultimate strength. Deep down I'm still the same alloy but heat treated.
Kinky
Thanks! I just like the feeling of the microcrystalline structure solving and re condensing with new orientation that prevent my gender planes from dislocating on all sorts of cleavage directions.
The moral of the story is don’t put someone under too much pressure or get them too heated, otherwise they’ll go gender critical.
Well normally it'll get gender fluid all over the place but if you do it right they'll go gender critical and get gender all over the place. That's how we got the month of June.
That is ...
Surprisingly deep.
Nah, just math. Look at the graph!
Where is the Gender Bose Einstein Condensate and Gender Time Crystal?
yet another failed attempt to map the gender spectrum 😔😔
Gender BEC would be a low energy gathering where all of a sudden everyone is on the same wavelength.
Gender Time Crystal would be someone who switches between two genders regularly.
Time Crystal Gender = Gallifrean
My favorite gender is gender ice 9
How about gender superglass?
Pressure: pushing down on me, Pressing down on you, no man ask for, Under pressure that burns a building down, Splits a family in two, Puts people on streets
Bender "Gender Bending" Rodriguez, Gender: Bose-Einstein Condensate (Bender is very ❄️cool🧊 😎)
The "Gender Gas" joke has always bothered me for no reason other than because gas IS a fucking fluid.
Both gender gas and gender liquid are gender fluid
What is gender plasma?
its what all the linux girls using KDE are
Yaaaay :3
It's how they turn the frogs gay
Gas is a fluid
You're right, that should be "Gender Liquid" with "Gender Plasma" in the far unreadable section. Gas and liquid should be grouped as fluids - is plasma a fluid? I don't think so but I'm not a physicist
Goddammit
The top right corner is supercritical fluid, which is correct, it's not the same as plasma, which doesn't really fit neatly on a pressure/temperature phase diagram.
Yes, it is just ionized gas. What happens when you ionize something in a liquid or solid state? Can ions not form a solid or liquid without some occupied orbitals?
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Gas can behave like a fluid. Or rather, the two can behave similarly, but they aren't the same thing.
They are though. "Fluidity" is not a discrete phase of matter, it's a characteristic certain phases of matter exhibit.
They say it gets hot between states.
Gender Fluid? You mean like the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket?
The kind you get when you get them to the right temperature and pressure.
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Ok so... what exactly would the gender triple point be?
... A person at their first rave, first time doing molly or E?
Idk if you want to put yourself in the "gender critical" category.
But it's so colourful! It makes being gender fluid seem boring…
Not me for certain. Too much pressure and too hot
Where is gender sand?
Be pansexual; it's a gas!
God I've been waiting to see a good version of this for years, thank you OP
Edit: goddammit it's all wrong
Looks like you cracked your phone screen.
I'm at the triple point
Are you saying that under enough social pressure anyone will revert to the gender binary? (j/k)
No, hot people will be supercritical
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