All I can say is that your experience of the 1990s and mine were two very different things. But I guess there's no point in dwelling on that. If you don't see why some people might have connected to Tieflings in a way others didn't, well, I don't know what to say. Bit back in 1997, the most popular representation of a person who wasn't a male or female would have been Pat from Saturday Night live.
Depends on the kinds of cultural exposure you have, and the internet is a heck of a bridge to new ideas.
I am sure you learned not to overuse shampoo.
If it wasnt a concept then, then why try to apply modern definitions to it?
Intersex is the modern umbrella term which things like "Hermaphrodite" falls under, but it also includes things like being born with different chromosomes or hormones than what ones body type generally has, it's more of a scientific term, and is the "I" in LGBTQI.
I hate umbrella terms, they rarely give enough information and cause more confusion than they are worth like "labels". They are like "branding".
I suspect that for Colin McComb, it might have been Genesis P Orridge of Throbbing Gristle, given that McComb is into Industrial Music.
Given the quote talks about “at birth,” I’m pretty sure it’s actually talking about sex, not gender, and saying that Tieflings are more often intersex than humans.
No, intersex even gets a letter in the longer version of the acronym, which is LGBTQIA.
Because nonbinary people still existed then, they just didn’t get discussed much and there wasn’t a commonly-used term to describe them. Now we have that term, we are more easily able to talk about the people it describes; past, present, and future.
Those are both intersex conditions. Intersex just means having combinations of sexual characteristics outside the two most typical modalities.
Friend, what do you think causes a person’s sex organs to develop (or not develop) that way in eutero? It’s hormones, which are determined primarily by the person’s chromosomes.
Intersex is the general term. There are a ton of different intersex conditions (all of which are very rare of course), and there are specific medical terms for each of them.
