What the fuck is that last galaxy-brain sentence supposed to even mean lenin-confused

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Something about the word cis sets them off in such a weird way when their whole identity is proving how cishet they definitely are through everything they say, do, and own.

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      8 months ago

      I’ll admit to being that kind of idiot that felt “cishet” was a strangely ugly word to describe myself. I was never outwardly against it like this goober though.

      I got over it really quick once my idiot brain allowed it to click that it was short for “cisgendered heterosexual.” I never claim to be a smart man, but I try to learn when I can.

      • CTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        For like a solid year I thought that “cishet” was some sort of Tumblr-insult and meant to be pronounced like “CiSHIT”. It lead to a lot of eyerolling from me whenever I read it, until it somehow dawned on me that it meant “cisgendered heterosexual”.

      • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        8 months ago

        Before I knew it was a Latin prefix that’s generically used in chemistry to mean “same”, my first encounter with it was defined as “comfortable in skin”. That was immediately as benign to me as heterosexual. From like age 3 I’ve never felt the need to question my sexuality, for as long as I can remember I’ve disliked masculinity but have never felt an impulse to change my body or gender performance. I was just like “oh cool, there’s a participation trophy word if none of this applies to me.”

    • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      It’s a mentality that they’re normal, default, and having to put any sort of prefix in front of their gender identity calls that “normal” status into question. The prefixes are for the Others, so by throwing cis in front of man or woman you’re treating them by the same standards as trans people are treated and oh boy they do not like that.