Is Cis a slur?

peterprefectartar said:
It can be considered offensive if you think transpeople become trans just "for sexual perversion".
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"This is offensive" just means "don't say this". People have said it so often as a response to a true statement they don't want to acknowledge that it has lost all other meaning.

Also, use the reply function. How retarded are you that you can't use an internet forum? Literal pants-shitting retards have come here and used it correctly.
 
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I'm not trans, therefore I'm cisgendered. It's not a slur, or an insult, or offensive, it's fact based on a valid English word derived from an ancient Latin prefix.

How dumb does one need to be to compare cis to n*gger/f*ggot which are hateful racist and homophobic slurs.

Go ahead and look up all these words in a dictionary. The N and F words above will have a note describing them as vulgar and offensive slurs. I see no such note next to cisgender.

Cis and cisgender are not slurs and are not offensive. TERFs saying "cis is offensive" makes as much sense as me saying "table is offensive, don't say it!!".
 
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peterprefectartar said:
Cis and cisgender are not slurs and are not offensive. TERFs saying "cis is offensive" makes as much sense as me saying "table is offensive, don't say it!!".
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What is offensive to people is completely subjective. The word "man" is not offensive, but when you refer to troons as "men in dresses" they still get offended. Because they are all demented and addicted to pornography and external validation. Regards
 
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It's a slur against reality. As if an entire generation of DnD players tried to make their own rulebook for a shitty sex fiend expansion and appointed themselves Dungeon Masters. Not my game not my rules , now go back to your man-sized litter boxes.
 
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peterprefectartar said:
I'm not trans, therefore I'm cisgendered. It's not a slur, or an insult, or offensive, it's fact based on a valid English word derived from an ancient Latin prefix.

How dumb does one need to be to compare cis to n*gger/f*ggot which are hateful racist and homophobic slurs.

Go ahead and look up all these words in a dictionary. The N and F words above will have a note describing them as vulgar and offensive slurs. I see no such note next to cisgender.

Cis and cisgender are not slurs and are not offensive. TERFs saying "cis is offensive" makes as much sense as me saying "table is offensive, don't say it!!".
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Language evolves.

A good example is "retarded". Decades ago it had no negative connotations and just meant people with slowed mental capacity. Now its obviously a slur and used as an insult.
Cis went through the exact same process, but sped up via the internet and a larger society.
 
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Calling Cis a slur is only going to give the word power and make it edgy for leftist like how nigger, kike, pajeet, and faggot has a level of power for us.
 
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No, it isn't a slur, but its existence is an attempt to reframe the issue from "trans people vs. the rest of humanity" to "trans people vs. cis people".

Functionally they mean the same thing, but on a psychological level it changes the way the issue is perceived. The former phrasing makes you think of an island of trans people surrounded by an ocean of the rest of humanity, while the latter phrasing nudges you into seeing it as a dichotomy between two groups of equal legitimacy. In other words, the word is an attempt at creating the illusion that "not being trans" is something other than simply being the default.

Having a word for people who aren't trans is like having a word for people who aren't furries (skinnies?).
 
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"Cis" is just a term dick-snipping freaks and fatherless homosexuals use to further cope with the fact that they're never going to fit into society. To answer your question, I think that at this point alot of them do think of it as an insult when they use it, but I don't think the average person is bothered. I mean you're effectively just being called "normal", and compared to those abominations - how bad could that be?
 
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It's widely considered one and I've routinely heard it used pejoratively. There was a nice thread on Mumsnet about the term which I can't be bothered to find but one of the points was imagine it in a racial context and you routinely referred to people as "non-Black" or "non-White" or whatever other group you chose to base it on. It would sound kind of off.

In anycase, we have the terms Man and Woman. The "cis-" prefix is a way of backdoor saying that a transwoman/man is the actual category they identify as. The use of cis assumes a mind set that both cis and trans are different types of the same sex. If you disagree with that (because you are intellectually honest) then you must reject the term 'cis'.
 
Beautiful Border said:
No, it isn't a slur, but its existence is an attempt to reframe the issue from "trans people vs. the rest of humanity" to "trans people vs. cis people".

Functionally they mean the same thing, but on a psychological level it changes the way the issue is perceived. The former phrasing makes you think of an island of trans people surrounded by an ocean of the rest of humanity, while the latter phrasing nudges you into seeing it as a dichotomy between two groups of equal legitimacy. In other words, the word is an attempt at creating the illusion that "not being trans" is something other than simply being the default.

Having a word for people who aren't trans is like having a word for people who aren't furries (skinnies?).
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We have words for people who aren't gay or bi. Straight and Heterosexual. Are they slurs now?
 
The use of cis assumes a mind set that both cis and trans are different types of the same sex. If you disagree with that (because you are intellectually honest) then you must reject the term 'cis'.
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Cis and cisgender are both in the dictionary. Dictionaries aren't going to remove words just because a small but loud number of people dislike certain words.
 
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I swear every time I see "cis" I always think of the Confederacy of Independent Systems from Star Wars.

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I thought battle droids didn't have a gender
 
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peterprefectartar said:
Well referring to a non-trans person as "real" or "normal" might imply a trans-person is "abnormal". Outside of the kiwifarms/twatter/mumsnet communities in actual real-life that may seem as somewhat offensive.
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You're an idiot. You're implying KF / Mumsnet are exceptions but the overwhelming majority of the world shares the same view. It's the West, and specifically a niche but loud segment of the West only, that thinks this way. Trans people are by definition abnormal and if somebody takes offence at that it makes it no less true.

"Offensive" has been weaponised as a way to shut down perfectly normal viewpoints. Firstly, it's been misused to be equivalent to "I find that offensive" regardless of intent. Which if you want to go down that route than you should stop using the word cis because very many people do consider it offensive to them. Secondly, avoiding hurting people's feelings can be a good thing, but it isn't if it's coddling a delusion or trumping important truths. Important truths like "you shouldn't be in this bathroom".
 
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Go ahead and leave your little gender critical internet community (here twitter and bumsnet, I mean mumsnet). Ask a random person on the street if they find "cisgendered" offensive. I guarantee they'll be like "no, why on earth would that be offensive"?

Only TERFs find it offensive because they can't accept transpeople exist. It's basically manufactured offensiveness. Only "offensive" because you want it to be.
 
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