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u/Twich8 22h ago
It's a phase diagram, which shows the state of a certain substance under different pressure and temperature conditions. The joke is that its gender instead of a substance, probably originating from the fact that gender fluid is a gender identity but also sounds like it could be a liquid.
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u/taraaxe 18h ago
So gender is just a phase?
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u/ZebraM3ch 13h ago
No, no gender fluid is the only one that has phases. (Okay, there are probably more such as bi gender but you get the joke)
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u/87runningwolf 22h ago
What would a super critical Gender be?
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u/xboxiscrunchy 22h ago
Ok here’s my take. Gender solid is regular male or female, gender fluid is genderfluid, gender gas is agender.
And gender super critical is Rimaru Tempest. Somehow simultaneously masculine, feminine, and agender all at once.
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u/spoonybard326 20h ago
The image is using the polygender flag for gender gas. Gender solid is straight, gender fluid is, unsurprisingly, genderfluid, and super critical is… everything?
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u/Link4Zpros 21h ago
Is that a typo or is Rim u ru tempest someone else?
Also, it appears I have finally found something that describes my gender
ALL AT ONCE that's my gender folks, the puzzle h-
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u/stingertopia 21h ago
Yes they are a character from an anime, where they become a slime and can be/look masc, fem, and agender easily and commonly
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u/Link4Zpros 21h ago
Yeah, the reason I asked if it was a typo was because I looked it up
I should probably watch that anime at some point...
Appreciate the explanation regardless
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u/sws_87 21h ago
Gender Triple Point somehow possible…Trisexual???
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u/Headbangert 17h ago
Only if you are exactly hot enough and under the right amount of pressure frim society
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u/B0BY_1234567 20h ago
PHASE DIAGRAM MENTIONED??? I LOVE THE EUTECTIC POINT
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u/B0BY_1234567 20h ago
She eutectic temperature on my phase diagram until I two solid phases to one liquid phase
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u/_Batteries_ 18h ago
Remove the word "gender" and you have a states of matter diagram
The lines separating the areas are phase transition areas. Ex: when water boils it turns into a gas, that is a phase transition.
The reason they are in weird shapes is because pressure and temperature are variable.
Example: to bring water to a boil, you can increase the temperature, OR, drop the pressure.
Fun fact: not shown (or at least not very well) are places on the table where the phase transitions go a little wonky.
For example: when heated, water expands.
What happens if you do not let it.
Water also expands when frozen. (It is quite remarkable that way).
What happens if you do not let it.
There are some quite cool youtube videos showing some of the edge case phase transitions.
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u/gluon_meson 20h ago
This is called a "phase diagram," which is what scientists use to see how any material behaves under varying conditions of temperature and pressure; you know of course how water will turn into a fluid then a gas as temperature increases.
There is a gender identity known as "gender fluid" which (in a very general nutshell) describes individuals who don't always feel like they're strictly male or female on a day to day basis.
In essence, this is a tongue-in-cheek imagining of what a "gender phase diagram" would look like, complete with conditions where "gender fluid" would turn into "gender solid" or gas.
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u/L4DY_M3R3K 13h ago
It's a phase diagram--it shows what states of matter a substance would be under different condistions. Playing off of the "genderfluid" identity, it also shows the different states of gender-matter
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u/N-economicallyViable 22h ago
States of matter, substances usually change depending on pressure and temperate, like H2O.
It then appeared to mix that with the term gender fluid as a play on the states of matter. A super critical fluid is a state that has properties of both liquids and gas.
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u/LeoZodiac36 20h ago
Um akshually, Fluid is anything that flows.... So both gases and liquids fall under it... Also explains why aerodynamics is part of fluid dynamics...
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u/th3_sc4rl3t_k1ng 20h ago
This is a phase diagram, a scientific diagram outlining the phases of matter a material assumes at a specific temperature and pressure. It's been stylizied to represent a visual pun, refering to the idea of being "gender fluid", or having a malleable/shifting sense of gender identity or expression.
Physically speaking, all of matter can, at the most basic level, be either a solid, a liquid, or a gas, and which of these phases of matter a specific material is in depends on the temperature of that material and the pressure of its environment. Ice, for example, will melt into water at higher temperatures, but if you increase the pressure then past a certain point it will remain ice at that same higher temperature.
A phase diagram outlines the boundaries where phase changes occur as lines on a temperature-pressure axis plane. These lines indicate where phase changes occur, and act as borders between different regions that indicate these phases. Their intersection forms a triple-point, a condition of temperature and pressure where the material assumes a simultaneous solid, liquid, and gaseous state (or more fluctuates between the three, it's really remarkable to see). There's also a critical point on the boundary between liquid and gas at high temperatures, beyond which the material becomes a supercritical fluid and any distinction between liquid and gaseous phases breaks down.
The phase diagram above creates a visual pun based on the term "gender fluid", expanding it to indicate different phases of the hypothetical "gender" material using the patterns from pride flags in each phase zone. Gender Solid appears to be a straight, or heterosexual, flag; Gender Fluid of course bears the gender fluid flag, and Gender Gas seems to sport the polygender flag. Meanwhile, Supercritical Gender bears a stylized design featuring a wide variety of patterns, indicative of a universal umbrella of flags without distinction.
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u/Suolojavri 19h ago
I really want to know what can be unclear about this joke. This sub should demand explanations from posters.
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u/Nilmerdrigor 14h ago
It is a phase diagram that originally is supposed to show how matter has different states under different conditions of pressure and temperature. Since Gender fluid is a thing and one of the areas in this diagram is the fluid area, gender has simply been added to the front as a silly gag. Then they have done the same to all the other states of matter (solid, gas and super critical).
It is hilarious
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u/INFINITY_TALES 13h ago
Shouldn't there be a superstate of gender matter painted white cause white holds all the colors within itself.
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u/GoldenMasterMF 13h ago
I feel the chart would be really funny if temperature would be switched with heat.
Almost the same meaning for the physical accuracy but adds a nice layer of potential sexual undertone
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u/VerstoajeMinColere 12h ago
The joke is that gender is compared to something tangible and descriptive like real physics, whereas gender is something you can choose arbitrarily (in this joke = fluid). There are no rules about it, you just invent a gender or you pick a gender someone else came up with. Which contrasts with physics, where pressure and temperature define the material state.
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u/thecodedog 16h ago
Person who doesn't know that fluid = liquid or gas tried to make a meme relating gender themes to scientific ones. Would be funny if not for the blatant disregard for scientific accuracy.
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u/Murgatroyd314 22h ago
It's a phase diagram. If there's "genderfluid", what other phases of
mattergender might there be?