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 wonβt 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 wonβt 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 donβt 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 βThe Tao that can be named is not the true Taoβ.
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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THREAD. The Boston Marathon will be run tomorrow. They have three categories now: men, women and nonbinary. A man is eligible for all three and he will be running in the womenβs category.
They created a nonbinary category, whatever that means, but that wasnβt enough. 1/
βRiya Suising, born Robert Chien Hwa Young, is a man. A long-time runner, Suising has competed in races in the female category more than 338 times since 2009, medaling for his age group more than 140 times.β He is racing as a woman tomorrow. Bc of course he is.
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So now a man will win the menβs category. Only a man has won that βnonbinaryβ category so far. And a woman has lost the chance to compete bc this guy is running in the womenβs category.
Have you ever seen an actual mob before? Have you ever encountered one? Iβve heard of mobs with pitchforks going after women who they called witches. I never thought Iβd actually see it.
I canβt imagine the terror. These women are so brave. 1/
Notice how the mob is screaming transpower? Thatβs the same phrase that was written on a shelter door when another group of this mob went after women who dared to seek a female only shelter after the worst thing that can happen to a woman. 2/
I donβt know where these women get the bravery. My heart is pounding just seeing that.
That mob is very upset that in law the word woman refers to women.
The women who fight for us
are heroic. Truly. Hereβs to you all!!
Youβve heard how people say terrible things about JK Rowling and what an awful person she is? It stems from the fact that she calls a man a man. Thatβs it. That is the crime of the century.
Seriously. They demand she pretend men are women and she wonβt. 1/
I canβt stress enough. Thatβs what all the hullabaloo is over. They say that she is denying a manβs humanity by calling him a man. Thatβs IT.
This is upside down and inside out.
She couldnβt be humanizing him more by recognizing his actual humanity. 2/
Donβt be fooled by any of this. Of course there is nothing wrong with recognizing an adult male human being as an adult male human being. Of course itβs not denying his humanity. Itβs silly to say otherwise. So why do they do it? Why say such a ridiculous thing? 3/
The man on the right and two others are suing England Hockey bc they dared to say womenβs hockey is for females. They created an open category for him. But that isnβt his cup of tea.
He also says 1/
Yes, he does use the changing room with all the women. Since no one has said anything to him he assumes that means that all the women are fine with it. 2/
He will punish England Hockey
for daring to have a female only category. The punishment is the legal process. He is trying to raise Β£100,000 for the legal costs. How can clubs survive vexatious lawsuits like these? 3/
Iβm speechless here. Not only did John Oliver belittle Payton McNabb for getting hurt by a male volleyball player but here he calls her vile names for calling out a man in the ladies room!
What???????
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He has the audacity to say the man crossing womenβs boundaries isnβt doing anything?!!!!
When did it become to perfectly ok to violate womenβs privacy?
Itβs like we are in anti Me Too world. 2/
He focuses the whole world on this young lady and calls her nasty. Thatβs low.
What is going on??????
Of all people to go after!! He goes after the girl who was seriously injured bc they let a boy play against her!!!
She is still dealing with the effects of that hit.
You know Payton McNabb. She is the young lady who was bashed so hard with a volleyball hit by a male player that she got seriously hurt.
Here is John Oliver going after her. Sheβs a young girl and John Oliver is attacking her! 1/
Seriously, can we all stop and appreciate the situation here. John Oliver is minimizing what happened to her. He canβt address the issue that having men in womenβs sports is dangerous, so he belittles a young girl, a teenager at the time, who was seriously injured by a boy. 2/
She did nothing but GET HURT and has to shame her on his show.
This is so low, folks. So down and dirty. He is putting her in danger to push an ideology that is indefensible on its own terms. 3/