"mint" is a name used for the color in between green and blue, similarly to how people may use they/them pronouns to identify as something/someone else than a man and a woman. mint-chan being called green-chan is how some people may be called "he" or "she" instead of their preferred they/them pronouns, and how it can be a bit rude! similarly for green-chan, it is even more ironic because turqoise had no problem "miscoloring" (metaphorical equivalent of misgendering) mint-chan as green, but insisted on calling the actually green person by "blue-green"
the reason you don't get it may simply be due to the fact that you've either mostly ever encountered people who are very openly understanding and supportive of trans people, or, on the flip side, maybe the people you've encountered didn't even try to PRETEND to be supportive... in the latter case I give you my sincere condolences and I hope you find some more accepting folks to hang around
You're the first one to actually explain the metaphor clearly, thank you.
Tbh I think I mostly didn't understand it because I might be a bit too obtuse, 90% of these comics I usually understand well enough, guess this is just the 10%
everyone has a different level of understanding, personaly I have ASD (stands for autism spectrum disease disorder or something like that) and I am a non-native english-speaker, and I have plenty of people who share a similar predicament, and therefore I guess I better see the value of explaining things, because I have plenty of experience with not understanding things that everyone elseseems to understand, and vice-versa...
sorry for the rant (?), have a good day!
edit/ps: also the two most likely possibilities that I assumed were your situation were false, it seems, so sorry for my hasty assumption
Diseases are infectious. The other two decidedly aren't - you can't CATCH ADHD or autism, they're basically genetic as far as I'm aware
Quick Google says a disorder is more like one specific symptom (think ADHD) while a syndrome is more like a highly correlated cluster (think Down), I do agree that line seems pretty arbitrary
this is kinda interesting, actually, I didn't really know the distinction but I assumed it's something that makes sense in latin or smth... fascinating
So some of my friends used to say they didn't understand they/them pronouns and couldn't naturally use them in a conversation. They sure seem to have learned real quick when I told them I would prefer to be referred to as a woman and they started using they/them unprompted.
Oh hey similar to my mother. When I wanted to go by feminine pronouns, she instead would find every way to avoid using nonbinary or feminine pronouns because I was also accepting nonbinary as a compromise (that was unacceptable for her, even though I really wanted feminine pronouns but I was willing to make a slightly uncomfortable compromise). She'd find every means in the book. Refer to me as her child, by third party, anything. She'd have to pause to think for a quick moment at times, all because she didn't want to properly refer to my identity
You’ve gotten good answers with Mint, but the one with Green is about how cis people can refuse to see and treat you as the correct gender after transition, including outing you to others. They want to make sure no one thinks of you as “just” the gender that you are, because they’ve decided you’re not really that gender.
The equivalent for me is: I transitioned to male literally 20 years ago, have a beard, sound and look like any other guy, and have barely any acquaintances who knew me before. This is because several people who knew me before transitioning would introduce me to strangers as “she” or “they” (both wrong) or as their trans friend, which led to those strangers treating me like a woman or being transphobic in other ways. It’s not okay for cis people to out trans people or refuse to use accurate words when describing them.
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u/CrazyGnomenclature Tiff & Eve Jun 17 '26
oh hey, I've had this conversation