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What is the most commonly used symbol or flag for the Eunuch Identity? I'm generally not too caught up with labels or identities, but it would be nice if there was a symbol of some sort that represented this tight knit community. It would be nice to be able to express my this pride in subtle ways with a symbol we can relate to.

The only times I ever tried to symbolize my eunuch desires, I did it as a joke which I expected nobody to get, and nobody did. I just bought, and wore, a T-shirt with a picture of a Mounds candy bar on it. As in the old advertisement, "Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't". Pretty sure it's a line that's been used around here in the past, but out in public, NOBODY thinks about a Mounds bar that way.

I have thought that a simple empty peanut shell might be a good image. Just two halves of a shell, nothing more.

jamiepan (imported) wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 9:14 am The only times I ever tried to symbolize my eunuch desires, I did it as a joke which I expected nobody to get, and nobody did. I just bought, and wore, a T-shirt with a picture of a Mounds candy bar on it. As in the old advertisement, "Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't". Pretty sure it's a line that's been used around here in the past, but out in public, NOBODY thinks about a Mounds bar that way.

I have thought that a simple empty peanut shell might be a good image. Just two halves of a shell, nothing more.

Kinda like my avatar! Maybe I should have it printed on a T shirt.

I'm not sure which community member created it, but many eunuchs have been getting a "broken male" symbol as a tattoo. It's the widely recognized male symbol, with the arrow separated and set off a bit with a space between it and the rest of the circle. Think of it as a penis being removed and leaving a bit of a stump as what it looks like, but using a basic circle and arrow.

Here is a rendering. I have a friend with this with the symbol outlined like this, and in the white area, he put rainbow flag coloring in, the same order as on the flag, but I think the yellow got short changed, because he wrote the word EUNUCH in big block letters across the center of the circle, and it took most of the spot the yellow on the flag would be in the design.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eunuch.svg

That is the only symbol I have seen that denoted being a eunuch. I think that one of the members of the archive used it on his page instead of a picture.

You can always paste that transparent broken-arrow icon over the pride flag of your choice.

Hetero-, Homo-, a-sexual, doesn't matter.

I had found another artist had come up with an amusing take on the idea with a restaurant franchise called Nooters

evolve wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:06 am What is the most commonly used symbol or flag for the Eunuch Identity? I'm generally not too caught up with labels or identities, but it would be nice if there was a symbol of some sort that represented this tight knit community. It would be nice to be able to express my this pride in subtle ways with a symbol we can relate to.

I don't get caught up with labels either. Seems to me if we have a need to stand up on a soap box and yell for everybody to look at us we have some other problems. While I may be a eunuch/nullo I don't shout it out to the so many that really have no reason to know.

I just let folks think what they like without influencing their personal views. Make no mistake, if somebody asks specific questions about my sex I answer honestly as that is my personality. If a guy or gal comes on to me I let them and they can respond to what they find however they like. (I've never been disappointed or harmed physically) I am me and don't find the need to proclaim on the mountain top that I'm this or that.In other words I have no reason for a symbol or flag to force myself or my beliefs on others. I'm not looking for anybody's approval and if somebody doesn't like who I am that's just too bad for them. But I can see how a lot of folks need a symbol or flag to proclaim who they are in our current society of identity politics. I just want to play nice with everybody as a hopeful example so others will follow and play nice as well.

Good for you, but not everyone is that way. The exact opposite that actually kind of tickled me was this happy looking little grandpa type (ie my age) at a restaurant who had on a gold-red-green striped stocking cap that said Vietnam Vet, a pullover gold-red-green stripped sweater that said Vietnam Vet across the chest and down each sleeve and gold-red-green striped sweat pants that said Vietnam Vet down each leg. I'm glad he was proud of something he had done in his life, but it did seem a little over the top.

I tend to use the Kye Rowan nonbinary flag. What it lacks in eunuch-specificity it makes up with growing recognition:

https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Nonbinary

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... e_Flag.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... y_flag.svg

Begoneboy (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:18 am I don't get caught up with labels either. Seems to me if we have a need to stand up on a soap box and yell for everybody to look at us we have some other problems. While I may be a eunuch/nullo I don't shout it out to the so many that really have no reason to know.

I just let folks think what they like without influencing their personal views. Make no mistake, if somebody asks specific questions about my sex I answer honestly as that is my personality. If a guy or gal comes on to me I let them and they can respond to what they find however they like. (I've never been disappointed or harmed physically) I am me and don't find the need to proclaim on the mountain top that I'm this or that.In other words I have no reason for a symbol or flag to force myself or my beliefs on others. I'm not looking for anybody's approval and if somebody doesn't like who I am that's just too bad for them. But I can see how a lot of folks need a symbol or flag to proclaim who they are in our current society of identity politics. I just want to play nice with everybody as a hopeful example so others will follow and play nice as well.

Thank you and very well said. As someone who is just beginning my path to becoming a eunuch, I naturally have been doing tons of reading and research. After all that reading, and during my "Counseling Sessions", I feel like there needs to be a label placed on me!!! As you stated, I am me!! I dont necessarily fit into these holes and labels that society has created!! I am just me!!!

Society the world over will place a label on us, no matter who we are. I'd say pick the one that you're most comfortable with when you interact with the world, then go live your life as who you are regardless of that label.

Losethem (imported) wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:08 am Society the world over will place a label on us, no matter who we are. I'd say pick the one that you're most comfortable with when you interact with the world, then go live your life as who you are regardless of that label.

Well said! And a HUGE thumbs up

Arab Nights (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:44 am Good for you, but not everyone is that way. The exact opposite that actually kind of tickled me was this happy looking little grandpa type (ie my age) at a restaurant who had on a gold-red-green striped stocking cap that said Vietnam Vet, a pullover gold-red-green stripped sweater that said Vietnam Vet across the chest and down each sleeve and gold-red-green striped sweat pants that said Vietnam Vet down each leg. I'm glad he was proud of something he had done in his life, but it did seem a little over the top.

Us Vietnam Vets have been keep under cover for a lone time.So when The Gulf War we have resolved thet No other Vet would be treated this way! this is why us Vets are on display.

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There also did once use to be a Greek letter called the "stigma" (that's right!). It was discontinued since enslaved eunuchs would be typically branded with the symbol. So much so that the symbol took on an entirely new meaning. Later it was abolished It kind of looked kind of like the cedilla: "Ç".

Haven't seen you in a long time, Devi. Hope you are doing OK.

I don't know you, Devi, but your icon pic is giving me one of the strongest deja-vu sensations I've ever had. As much as I know it's virtually impossible that I know you, my brain is screaming that I do. It must be the odd soft-focus of the pic. And the cheeky, impish a smile :p

jamiepan (imported) wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:54 pm I don't know you, Devi, but your icon pic is giving me one of the strongest deja-vu sensations I've ever had. As much as I know it's virtually impossible that I know you, my brain is screaming that I do. It must be the odd soft-focus of the pic. And the cheeky, impish a smile :p

I love Devi's photo. It so reminds me of a lot of great times in late 60s & early 70s

gandalf (imported) wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:36 am I think that one of the members of the archive used it on his page instead of a picture.

That would be me!

Begoneboy (imported) wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:31 am I love Devi's photo. It so reminds me of a lot of great times in late 60s & early 70s

Ah, a young Devi and whore houses strung out all up and down Highway 95 in Nevada. What a time with something for everyone!

I went on a float trip down the Grand Canyon back in 74. There was a nudist group that was timed exactly with us. We passed each other a couple of times. Amazingly, two years ago I talked with a guy for another reason who back then organized those trips. He said it was a group called Elysian Fields out of LA. The people would take the train from LA to northern AZ where they would pick them up and take them to the launch point. He said the minute they got off the train, the clothes came off and the screwing began.

A guy could almost have fond memories of the pre-AIDS, a shot-of-penicillin-covers-it-all world.

i'm thinking about a symbol like in Qunuch81's avatar. i added a 26 in the center of the circle. The 26 stands for the 26th guy castrated by the cutter i used. it was undoubtedl

y the best decision I ever made for myself.

That would be me! ��

I think there was also one that was pre-Qunuch81. Not sure what happened to them.

jamiepan (imported) wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 9:14 am The only times I ever tried to symbolize my eunuch desires, I did it as a joke which I expected nobody to get, and nobody did. I just bought, and wore, a T-shirt with a picture of a Mounds candy bar on it. As in the old advertisement, "Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't". Pretty sure it's a line that's been used around here in the past, but out in public, NOBODY thinks about a Mounds bar that way.

I have thought that a simple empty peanut shell might be a good image. Just two halves of a shell, nothing more.

... And now you know the origins of my screen name

Thanks for the responses/feedback to this thread. I design T-shirt logos as a side gig/hobby and you've given me some good ideas to work with. I'm thinking of creating one with a Mounds bar with the words "Not Free" in place of the Mounds name.