Ironicgender

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Source Wiki: LGBTA Wiki

Ironicgender
Categorization
Type	Mimesigender, Xenogender
History
Coined By	FrenchFriesFred on the LGBTA Wiki
Coining Date	February 19, 2021

Ironicgender is a gender defined both as any gender used to hide one's true gender identity when wanting to remain anonymous, or as a gender with some level of irony or comedy to it. Ironic- can be used as a prefix to apply this experience of gender to another label (eg. ironicboy, ironicgirl, ironicenby, etc.)

Etymology

The "ironic-" part of ironicgender comes from the English word "irony", defined both as expressing something opposite to what you think (usually for comedic effect), and as a situation that is either strange or funny because it unfolded in a way that feels opposite to what you expected.

Pronunciation

ie-rAH-nik-jEn-durh

Definitions

• Ironicgender is a xenogender in which the identifying as any gender for ironic/comedic purposes but not disclosing one's true gender. The identifying will identify as any other gender usually as a disguise when conducting or participating in trolling operations. - FrenchFriesFred, 2021
• They may feel their original gender is ironic. Labels like ironicboy, ironicgirl, ironicenby can be used if the individual feels that their gender has an ironic and comedic purpose, for example, a person who may identify as a boy may feel their masculine or male gender is in a way comedic and has a sense of irony thus being able to call oneself as ironicboy. - Clear.Skyes, 2021

The original source of this term was a wikia page, the second definition is an edit added to the page the same day the page was created (February 19, 2021).

Community

Controversy

This identity is not widely known or used, but has had a small amount of controversy surrounding it. Some believe that the term may have been coined by somebody trying to troll the LGBTA Wiki, citing both the trollface on the flag, and that the creator of the term has not made any contribution to the Wiki since creating and defending this term's page. The creator argued against the trollface on the flag being an indication of a troll label by pointing out that the trollface is a common symbol in online ironic comedy.

Related Terms

Subsets

• Ironicgirl
• Ironicboy
• Ironicenby

See Also

• Mimesigender

Gallery

Flags

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  Ironicgender flag by FrenchFriesFred

Flag Meaning: The dark reddish purple at the top represents irony; The lighter red represents comedy, similar to the first stripe to tie into ironic humor; The brown at the bottom represents the mysteriousness about the person's gender.

Coining

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  Screenshot of the upload history for the flag file, showing that FrenchFriesFred uploaded it to the LGBTA Wiki the same day the term was coined