Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
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Re: Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
#2How are these terms a slur, exactly? They just describe a property of being.
Re: Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
#3How are these terms a slur, exactly? They just describe a property of being.
Most slurs started as describing a property of being, but over time began to be perceived as something else.
Re: Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
#4How are these terms a slur, exactly? They just describe a property of being.
They offend Elon's free speech sensibilities.
Re: Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
#5Re: Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
#6How are these terms a slur, exactly? They just describe a property of being.
I haven't heard "cis" deployed as a slur, but "incel" seems to be predominantly used that way. Isn't it also a property of being?
Re: Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
#7It's not a slur but aren't slurs allowed on Twitter anyways?
I guess he will down-rank slurs and nobody will see them which ends up being almost the same as banning them.
Re: Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
#8How are these terms a slur, exactly? They just describe a property of being.
I assume it's a bit like how a few straight people used to object to the term 'straight', generally complaining that they were just 'normal' people (haven't seen this in years, but it was big in the nineties and early noughties from the more over-sensitive corners of the right wing).
Though arguably even more absurd; 'cisgender' is the rough equivalent to the rather dry technical term 'heterosexual', and I've never heard of anyone objecting to _that_. It's not even slang!
"Cisgender" is obviously not a slur, come on, but this is Saint Car we're talking about; one shouldn't necessarily expect things to make sense.
(One wonders how he thinks people _should_ describe non-trans people).
Re: Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
#9In 58 BCE, Julius Caesar was appointed governor of [REDACTED, PRAISE ELON]-alpine Gaul.
Re: Elon Musk says terms 'cisgender' and 'cis' are now considered 'slurs' on Twitter
#10How are these terms a slur, exactly? They just describe a property of being.
I assume it's a bit like how a few straight people used to object to the term 'straight', generally complaining that they were just 'normal' people (haven't seen this in years, but it was big in the nineties and early noughties from the more over-sensitive corners of the right wing). Though arguably even more absurd; 'cisgender' is the rough equivalent to the rather dry technical term 'heterosexual', and I've never h…
"A bit like" is underselling it. It is that. Occasionally, I politely ask people objecting to the term "cis" what word they would prefer I use instead. I've had people directly tell me I should refer to cis people as "normal".
Another, much more interesting response I've gotten multiple times is that I should use "man/woman" instead of "cis". Which implies that transgender people either don't exist, or don't belong to either category.