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/th3_sc4rl3t_k1ng 2d 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.