More from a newly discovered nearby neighborhood park

A post last week showed you how rain lily flowers (Zephyranthes drummondii) were changing from white to pink and purple as they approached the end of their ephemeral lives in Schroeter Neighborhood Park, which I’d just learned about. Plenty of other native plants were coming up there, like the zexmenia (Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida) in the top picture, and the white larkspur (Delphinium carolinianum) below.

  

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Some ancient theologians asserted the existence of nine kinds of angelic beings:

• Seraphim
• Cherubim
• Thrones
• Dominions (or Dominations)
• Virtues
• Powers
• Principalities
• Archangels
• Angels

Not only can you find out more about each supposed kind of angelic being in the article “9 Types of Angels,” you can also read about the medieval debates that angelologists engaged in to determine how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.

Not to be outdone by a paltry nine categories, present-day theologians assert the existence of “as many genders as we say there are.” Here are some of them:

• Agender
• Aliagender
• Androgyne
• Aporagender
• Bigender
• Boi
• Butch
• Cisgender
• Demiboy
• Demienby
• Demigirl
• Demitrans
• Female
• Feminine of center
• Femme
• Gender expansive
• Gender fluid
• Gender outlaw
• Genderqueer
• Gendervoid
• Graygender
• Intergender
• Male
• Masculine of center
• Maverique
• Neither
• Neutrois
• Nonbinary
• Novigender
• Omnigender
• Pangender
• Polygender
• Soft butch
• Stone butch
• Third gender
• Trans
• Transfeminine
• Transgender
• Transmasculine
• Trigender
• Two spirit

After I gleaned those from various sources, I came across a Dude Asks article with a list of 112 genders as of the year 2022, along with a brief explanation of each. Check them out for your great edification. It occurred to me as a math teacher that each of the 9 types of angelic being could come in each of those 112 genders, so in all there are 9 x 112 = 1008 angelicogendric combinations. In fact the number is really higher than 1008. One reason is that some of the genders in my first list aren’t included in the 112 of the second list and need to be added. Another reason is that most likely at least one new gender will have been gen(d)erated in the week since I prepared this post. Thanks to the advances that modern science has engendered, it’s as hard to keep up with the many recent changes in genders as with the many recent changes in botanical genera.

Despite my best efforts I haven’t yet found an article that tells how many angelicogendric beings can dance on the head of a pin, but I’ll remain agenda-fluid and keep searching for the answer.

© 2022 Steven Schwartzman