Isn’t that the difference between a slur and an insult, that a slur is offensive in itself against a certain group of people*, while an insult depends on context?
Just because a word is a scientific definition doesn’t mean it can’t become a slur. It’s happened many times, retard, negro, and a lesser extent dumb, lame, insane. There’s also illegal aliens, and homeless which are/becoming discouraged.
Just because a word is a scientific definition doesn’t mean it can’t become a slur. It’s happened many times
Yes, but every time because people used the word pejoratively. Pointing out that someone is cis isn’t an insult or otherwise pejorative and there’s nobody who’s trying to insult people who aren’t by calling them cis either.
Transphobes are calling it a slur because they don’t like how acknowledging that you can be cis implies acknowledging that others aren’t. It’s just the typical bully playing the victim dance that bigots always do when people question their bigotry in even the most benign ways.
There’s also illegal aliens
Nope, that was always a slur designed for othering all immigrants by making the undocumented ones sound inherently criminal and frightening, and then conflating all immigration with that imaginary bogeyman.
It’s the “white lives matter” of trans conversation.
Let’s see if the OP of this thread can answer me as I asked what “other phrases” he would suggest to replace “cisgender” which would actually convey the same meaning.
Notice how none of your examples describe the privileged majority the way “cis” does? Give us a slur that includes 98% of the population and you might have a valid point.
In context, no one is harassed/discriminated against/barred from housing/barred from employment/barred from accessing medical care because they are cis. There is no world in which a cis person is walking down the street, hears “hey cisgender!” and gets the shit beaten out of them.
tbh, a word being a slur depends on the use case. No word in isolation definitely is or is not a slur.
Isn’t that the difference between a slur and an insult, that a slur is offensive in itself against a certain group of people*, while an insult depends on context?
*Unless used by people from that group itself
The scientific definition of your gender identity matching the one you were assigned at birth is not, has never been, and never will be a slur.
Please stop it with the disingenuous devil’s advocate act.
Just because a word is a scientific definition doesn’t mean it can’t become a slur. It’s happened many times, retard, negro, and a lesser extent dumb, lame, insane. There’s also illegal aliens, and homeless which are/becoming discouraged.
Yes, but every time because people used the word pejoratively. Pointing out that someone is cis isn’t an insult or otherwise pejorative and there’s nobody who’s trying to insult people who aren’t by calling them cis either.
Transphobes are calling it a slur because they don’t like how acknowledging that you can be cis implies acknowledging that others aren’t. It’s just the typical bully playing the victim dance that bigots always do when people question their bigotry in even the most benign ways.
Nope, that was always a slur designed for othering all immigrants by making the undocumented ones sound inherently criminal and frightening, and then conflating all immigration with that imaginary bogeyman.
This.
It’s the “white lives matter” of trans conversation.
Let’s see if the OP of this thread can answer me as I asked what “other phrases” he would suggest to replace “cisgender” which would actually convey the same meaning.
Notice how none of your examples describe the privileged majority the way “cis” does? Give us a slur that includes 98% of the population and you might have a valid point.
normie
How is gender identity detected, scientifically?
The answer is much more complicated than your question, so I’m gonna let an actual expert explain.
In context, no one is harassed/discriminated against/barred from housing/barred from employment/barred from accessing medical care because they are cis. There is no world in which a cis person is walking down the street, hears “hey cisgender!” and gets the shit beaten out of them.