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    7 months ago

    I mean, Fuck Elon Musk, that’s a given, but I don’t like the term, never used it, never will

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      7 months ago

      I don’t like sex. Never did and never will. So I demand it to banned!

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            Just saying that if the LGBTQI+ community doesnt like a word, it very quickly becomes unacceptable to use. But if I dont like a word I get told to suck it up because thats what I am…

            “When a marginalized group doesn’t like being called something deliberately hurtful, it becomes unacceptable. But how come no one cares that I don’t like how a word sounds phonetically?? That’s the same!!”

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                Because the word is “cisgender” and there’s no world where its a slur.

                You just don’t like how it sounds. It doesn’t marginalize or harm you in any way.

                When you act pissy that you don’t get to play at being a marginalized group, you should expect to be told off.

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            7 months ago

            I suppose technically instead of transgender we could use heterogender, meaning we’d say homogender instead of cisgender. The only time you’d use these terms (and similar ones, like AFAB/AMAB) is in specific situations where the nuance distinguishing the two matters.

            You don’t have to use the terms either. It’s fully acceptable to just call people men and women, particularly in contexts where their assigned sex doesn’t matter, which I’d wager for most people is pretty much all the time.

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                It sounds like your reasoning is similar to how a lot of people feel about the word ‘moist’.

                I wouldn’t be happy if the descriptor for me was viscerally hurtful to myself.

                I think the big difference is the world we live in. Lgbtq+ are being targeted by rightwing fucks all over the world. Talking about how you don’t like the word sounds a lot like ‘Im just asking what a woman is’. It’s not exactly transphobic, but those phrases are often used by people trying to legitimize their hate. For example, take a look at JKRs change in rhetoric.

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              7 months ago

              go ahead, go out into the world, and start referring to any other person as “homogender”, ahahahaha, come back and report how far you got before someone punched you square in the nose