this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
109 points (94.3% liked)
Asklemmy
43945 readers
502 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
When the richest manchild in the world
outright bans people from his "radical free speech" cryptofascist safe space for saying "cis," maybe it's not a good look to be that worked up about that particular prefix. 
The question was "what term annoys you" not "what term annoys you that you're sure Lemmy will approve of" (or that a malignant narcissist billionaire isn't also annoyed by).
I'm open to an explanation of a commonplace situation where it's necessary to have a separate word for "is of the gender that matches that assigned at birth."
To me it's like if I say I enjoyed the sunrise" and someone says, "you mean the Earth sunrise?"
I mean yeah, sunrises happen all over the solar system, there are different kinds of sunrises, probably all beautiful in their own ways, but in general the default "sunrise" a human is likely to be talking about is the one we experience on Earth.
Cis is just the opposite of trans. If some people are trans then it follows others are cis.
20 years ago you'd be pissing and whining about the use of heterosexual.
And we've used it for years for other words with the trans prefix, see Cisalpine versus transalipine gauls in roman history.
Any time that you assume something is some vague obvious-to-you "normal" by default and insist that everyone else that isn't that "normal" requires a distinct identifier.
You sound like a typical boomer that describes the ethnicity of anyone except those the boomer otherwise sees as "normal."
You don't live light years away from trans people.
Do you not see the tiny bubble world you're perceiving everyone else from when you presume "a human" by default is only perceiving your tiny bubble world and otherwise doesn't count?
In this example they, the CIS are human, and the non-cis is implied to be what? Non-human? This person sucks.
trans people existing is that "commonplace situation" you worthless fucking worm
cishets need mandatory re-education at a minimum. this one should just be shot.
Waste of a perfectly good bullet; they make deep holes in the earth for that
the ussr left us the kola superdeep borehole knowing we would one day fill it with the absolute worst garbage humanity would ever produce
because they loved us.
Because they so loved the world
you suck
Nowhere in that question does it say you are free from being criticized for your dumbshit worldview. It's a public forum, you write something, don't get surprised when people respond.
That's incredibly weird. To me it's like someone saying "I'm trans, and you?" And the other responding "I'm cis." Funny how that works.
See above. Also see: Whenever you need to classify yourself as cis-gender in any survey, form or likewise.
Sunrises on other planets are not a reality for anyone on Earth. The existence of trans people is.