Well, I spent 20+ years in the cult of the left until they gave me a hard shove to the right with the word "cisgender." I'm optimistic that changing the definition of "anti-vaxxer" is going to have similar results.
Well, I spent 20+ years in the cult of the left until they gave me a hard shove to the right with the word "cisgender." I'm optimistic that changing the definition of "anti-vaxxer" is going to have similar results.
The vaccine issue is a rather unique one. It doesn't track along the normal partisan lines the way most everything else does. There are many who are otherwise lefty, and who are otherwise right-leaning, who are vaccine skeptics.
But I also find that many on the right don't know that, and they reflexively dismiss the skeptics as lefty nutters (Jenny McCarthy hur dur). You know the reflex: "If those people are against them, then they must be fine. I could never agree with them." People across the spectrum use that crappy way of determining their positions. It's awful.
I remain in confusion regarding "cisgender". A word with no real meaning. " cis-, meaning 'on this side of', which is the opposite of trans-, meaning 'across from' or 'on the other side of'." So the word means, in essence, non-transgender which for most of us is a normal condition. But cisgender sounds so, well, scientific. A word coined in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender).
Yes-- but I fear it goes even further than that, ratifying sex as part of one's identity vs. a biological description based upon phenotype.
I am not a woman because I identify as one, or feel like one, but because I was born with ovaries, a uterus, and their external markers. The existence of the word cisgender is an attempt to nullify this fact and tell people like me that the only reason we don't realize that our gender identity exists and IS our identity is because we're "cis."
Excellent analysis. I didn't get it either and thought it was extreme, but didn't dare say so in public. Now all bets are off and I'm prepared to weaponize language right back at them. Apparently I'm a GD antivaxxer, but so are most of us. Whoo hoo!
Well, I spent 20+ years in the cult of the left until they gave me a hard shove to the right with the word "cisgender." I'm optimistic that changing the definition of "anti-vaxxer" is going to have similar results.
The vaccine issue is a rather unique one. It doesn't track along the normal partisan lines the way most everything else does. There are many who are otherwise lefty, and who are otherwise right-leaning, who are vaccine skeptics.
But I also find that many on the right don't know that, and they reflexively dismiss the skeptics as lefty nutters (Jenny McCarthy hur dur). You know the reflex: "If those people are against them, then they must be fine. I could never agree with them." People across the spectrum use that crappy way of determining their positions. It's awful.
Agree. It's super confusing and illogical. It doesn't serve anyone but those pulling the puppet strings.
I remain in confusion regarding "cisgender". A word with no real meaning. " cis-, meaning 'on this side of', which is the opposite of trans-, meaning 'across from' or 'on the other side of'." So the word means, in essence, non-transgender which for most of us is a normal condition. But cisgender sounds so, well, scientific. A word coined in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender).
Yes-- but I fear it goes even further than that, ratifying sex as part of one's identity vs. a biological description based upon phenotype.
I am not a woman because I identify as one, or feel like one, but because I was born with ovaries, a uterus, and their external markers. The existence of the word cisgender is an attempt to nullify this fact and tell people like me that the only reason we don't realize that our gender identity exists and IS our identity is because we're "cis."
Excellent analysis. I didn't get it either and thought it was extreme, but didn't dare say so in public. Now all bets are off and I'm prepared to weaponize language right back at them. Apparently I'm a GD antivaxxer, but so are most of us. Whoo hoo!
yeah, and -fobia used to mean fear of something, now means common sense