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Response to "Cis" gender 2014-04-14 17:39:29 Reply

I like to think of it as gay and trans hipsters thinking being straight is too mainstream.


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Response to "Cis" gender 2014-04-14 17:41:00 Reply

At 4/14/14 05:39 PM, Manly-Chicken wrote: I like to think of it as gay and trans hipsters thinking being straight is too mainstream.

*Gay and trans people who think cis people are the devil.

I'm joking

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Response to "Cis" gender 2014-04-15 16:23:16 Reply

At 4/14/14 04:06 PM, Canas wrote:

"As often, when rebellion breaks out in a great nation,
and the common rabble rage with passion, and soon stones
and fiery torches fly (frenzy supplying weapons),
if they then see a man of great virtue, and weighty service,
they are silent, and stand there listening attentively:
he sways their passions with his words and soothes their hearts."

Virgil, Aeneid


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Response to "Cis" gender 2014-04-15 19:35:04 Reply

Cisgender is just the term for being the same gender and born sex. It's like the "heterosexual" of gender identity, and recent efforts to bring it as a term into the public consciousness stem from a desire to (rightly or wrongly) make non-cis individuals seem less alien. The point being that we all have a gender identity, it's just that some of us don't have one that matches our born sex.

I've literally never heard anyone unironically use the term cis-scum, and I basically live on tumblr. Either you're all terrible at following blogs you enjoy reading, or you're seeking out offense in order to indulge in outrage just as badly as any 14 year old liberal. Do you genuinely expect young teenagers not to be radical and have unpolished philosophies? There's no shortage of apathy in the world, and unless you're expecting everyone to come into politics with a fully formed and finalised set of beliefs, your reactions aren't overly constructive.


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Response to "Cis" gender 2014-04-16 04:38:51 Reply

They need a little Tumblr social justice.


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