A thread about the word cis: short for cisgender. 1/
I ran a poll and over 5700 people said they find to be offensive. That should be enough for anyone not to use the term. If you want to know why, read the responses.
2/ The reason I find it offensive is that it suggests I identify with gender stereotypes. People are not walking talking GI Joe dolls or Barbies. I fought gender stereotypes my whole life. I wonโt wear one as a label.
There are many other reasons.
3/. Once someone has told you that they find a term offensive, to continue to use the term is to turn it into a slur: a bigoted and intolerant position refusing to accept that others differ from your ideology. #CisIsASlur
4/ The genderists however have a vested interest in calling you Cisgender. It is important to their ideology. It is important to their hierarchy of oppression. Calling you cis is to call you an oppressor.
5/ I repeat. When they call you cis they are calling you an oppressor. Ironically, this puts them in a position of power over you. Now they can take your stuff because you are a bad person.
6/ They object vociferously to letting you out of this oppressor role they have built for you with this slur.
7/ The same replies are repeated over and over. I only screenshot a couple.
8/ For daring to object to their gender ideology they start to apply the typical pressure. They call you transphobic. Which makes no sense since all you did was ask them not to call YOU something.
Read the word as heretic and it makes more sense.
9/. You are a heretic if you object to the ideology. You must be punished. You must be brought back in line. You are a bad person if you wonโt accept what you are. They have told what you are. You better accept it.
10/. The pressure mounts. If you hold your ground they bring out the big insults. Call you a Terf: Trans exclusionary radical feminist.
This manipulation often works because no one wants to be seen as exclusionary.
11. The insults get stronger and stronger the more you resist.
Do you see how emphatically they require you to be a part of this ideology? Simply resisting the word cisgender brings the rage.
12. Notice too if the insults donโt work they will imply you are reducing women to biology.
But defining what a woman is (a finite noun, specifically an adult human female) is not the same as saying who a woman is (which is infinite).
13. This has been a long thread. Forgive me. I wanted to make it clear just how insistent this new ideology is about you adhering to it. This kind of enormous social pressure works. Watch out for it. See the word cis for what it is: Indoctrination into an ideology.
14. As they teach in Taoism โThe Tao that can be named is not the true Taoโ.
When you label your identity you limit yourself. You place yourself in a box.
Who you are is an infinite expression wayyy too beautiful and complex for any kind label.
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Sad to add this to a thread that just ended on an upbeat note, but you must understand that the vitriol is ramping up. Please be aware.
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For three hours today I watched a man go on and on about exactly what criteria it should take to allow men into the ladies room. Heโs had surgery so heโs decided that the compromise is to let him into our spaces.
Where do they get the nerve to think they can decide? 1/
Then I watched some women say they were fine with it. One of them I know is a man, but others could be women. Where do they get the nerve to think they can decide to open our spaces to anyone?
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And all of this for what? Because they canโt bear to say no to these particular men?
Itโs ok. Theyโll get over it.
Better to tell them no than to cross a womanโs boundaries.
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So, I posted yesterday about Keith Olbermanโd weird obsession with Riley Gaines. Then I did a search for some of his comments about her. This is just the most recent stuff. There were so many comments Iโd be taking screenshots all day.
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Here are some more.
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And yet another. All his comments are vicious. He is enraged with her for what? For protecting womenโs sports? For speaking about schools putting men in the girlโs locker rooms? For saying no?
What sheโs doing is amazing. Sheโs standing up for young girls. 3/
1. How many times does someone says โincluding others doesnโt hurt youโ? We hear it all day long.
They are wrong. They know it. They donโt want you to know it.
2. Letโs start here. When women are a subset of women they cannot lay claim to anything that was separately a womanโs. In one linguistic sleight of hand, women have lost their individuality that determines who has control of something. Be it sports or prison or their name.
3. Now the woman is just a grumpy member of the group trying to keep something away from other WOMEN.
EVERY reason why we have separate spaces women is instantly wiped out with this trick. We are stunned.
We try to explain. We are sure itโs a misunderstanding.
If you donโt know just how blatantly anti woman this whole gender ideology is, hereโs the perfect example. Two articles, same site, same day. Discussing the issue for men they know what a man is. But when it comes to women, we are nothing but owners of body parts. 1/
Here, women have lost their existence altogether. I canโt even repeat this headline itโs so demeaning.
I mean. COME ON. 2/
But you say, those arenโt serious publications. Actual distinguished people donโt say ridiculous things like that. Youโre being hyperbolic!
Am I really? This is the Lancet. Itโs a very high brow organization.