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WCDT 2897 - 2901 (16-20 February 2015)
AprilArcus:
--- Quote from: kent_eh on 19 Feb 2015, 06:29 ---
--- Quote ---...with a cis guy
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Excuse me for being clueless about such things, but can someone define the term "cis" for me?
I assume from the context that it has something to do with having a traditional gender identity, or something like that.
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Yup! "Cisgender" is a way of talking about people who aren't transgender without using loaded words like "normal".
explicit:
Calling me normal would be pretty off the mark anyways.
ReindeerFlotilla:
I, on the other hand, am generally normal...
To the plane defined by Earth's gravity over a local area of its surface.
CM_albion:
--- Quote from: AprilArcus on 19 Feb 2015, 16:57 ---
--- Quote from: kent_eh on 19 Feb 2015, 06:29 ---
--- Quote ---...with a cis guy
--- End quote ---
Excuse me for being clueless about such things, but can someone define the term "cis" for me?
I assume from the context that it has something to do with having a traditional gender identity, or something like that.
--- End quote ---
Yup! "Cisgender" is a way of talking about people who aren't transgender without using loaded words like "normal".
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i must say, for all that i am a supporter of people being themselves, however that manifests, and will be until the day i die, this minefield of new terminology you have to memorize so as not to offend people gives me a headache sometimes.
AprilArcus:
--- Quote from: CM_albion on 19 Feb 2015, 17:10 ---i must say, for all that i am a supporter of people being themselves, however that manifests, and will be until the day i die, this minefield of new terminology you have to memorize so as not to offend people gives me a headache sometimes.
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kids these days with their newfangled mouth sounds why in my day we just had gay, straight, cis and trans and you'd like it maybe demisexual or genderqueer if you were a real special snowflake none of these fictives or otherkin you see running around in public like it's anthrocon all day long telling me I have to remember everyone's pronoun in the nominative, accusative, genitive and dative cases or they'll cry in a corner about how I'm erasing them with my linguistic hegemony well I got news for you, take one step across my lawn and I'll be after you with my pink pearl like Robert Rauschenberg with a Willem de Kooning on his easel!
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