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Post by Bick on Apr 10, 2019 22:23:48 GMT -8
I learned a new word today...cisgender. Someone had to invent a gender identity term for "normal"?
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Post by Luca on Apr 11, 2019 5:11:21 GMT -8
It’s a chemical term derived from Latin. “Trans’ means when you have a group of atoms on the opposite side of a molecule and “cis” is when they are on the same side. It never occurred to me that it would be used in this fashion. It’s funny how people will use complicated terms to make themselves sound more sophisticated and try to give their perspective some legitimacy even when it’s foolish. That’s how sociologists make a living.
Remember the old joke “Never use a long word when a diminutive one will suffice”?
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Post by MDDad on Apr 11, 2019 8:36:56 GMT -8
Why are Democrats trying to destroy women's sports? Because their Social Justice Warrior causes sometimes conflict, and they lack the intellect to resolve them? |
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Post by MDDad on Apr 11, 2019 8:39:07 GMT -8
It’s a chemical term derived from Latin. “Trans’ means when you have a group of atoms on the opposite side of a molecule and “cis” is when they are on the same side. It never occurred to me that it would be used in this fashion. It’s funny how people will use complicated terms to make themselves sound more sophisticated and try to give their perspective some legitimacy even when it’s foolish. That’s how sociologists make a living. Remember the old joke “Never use a long word when a diminutive one will suffice”? If "cis" means "on the same side", shouldn't "cisgender" be a synonym for "homosexual"? |
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Post by Bick on Apr 11, 2019 9:22:40 GMT -8
Thanks to the article Credo posted, I learned that there's a term for choosing to be what you already are. I guess the "cis" part means in agreement with fact? Maybe a homosexual would be a cissexual?
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Post by MDDad on Apr 11, 2019 9:29:51 GMT -8
That sounds like more leftist mumbo-jumbo. If I have blue eyes, I can't choose to have blue eyes...or at least my choice is irrelevant. And if I have X and Y chromosomes, my choosing to be a man is just as irrelevant. You can choose your behavior, but you can't choose what you are.
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Post by Bick on Apr 11, 2019 9:53:49 GMT -8
An additional "I am" was added before the comma in the English translation of Cogito Ergo Sum.
You didn't get the memo?
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Post by ProfessorFate on Apr 11, 2019 11:24:30 GMT -8
 Cogito Sum, Ergo Sum? That explains it.
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Post by Luca on Apr 11, 2019 12:21:47 GMT -8
It’s a chemical term derived from Latin. “Trans’ means when you have a group of atoms on the opposite side of a molecule and “cis” is when they are on the same side. It never occurred to me that it would be used in this fashion. It’s funny how people will use complicated terms to make themselves sound more sophisticated and try to give their perspective some legitimacy even when it’s foolish. That’s how sociologists make a living. Remember the old joke “Never use a long word when a diminutive one will suffice”? If "cis" means "on the same side", shouldn't "cisgender" be a synonym for "homosexual"? It's hard to know for sure, but maybe its reference to Lou Reed's " Take a Walk on the Wild Side." If you're "trans" you're crossing over the line to "take a walk on the wild side" (so to speak), but if you're "cis" you stay in your lane (gender-wise) and don't cross the line. Maybe. I don't think chemists ever intended for their Latin roots to be applied to gender confusion, but perhaps it was a lack of imagination on their part. I used to tell jokes in my chemistry class, but I never got a reaction. I guess they were pretty boron 'cuz all the best jokes argon. You can never trust atoms anyway, they make up everything........................Luca . |
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Post by Bick on Apr 13, 2019 14:06:27 GMT -8
I can't figure out if this is an example of getting your panties in a wad, or your jockstrap getting stuck in your crack.
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Post by Luca on Apr 13, 2019 14:19:27 GMT -8
A few months ago I received a flyer for an upcoming conference regarding "Medical Issues in Transgender and Gender Fluid Patients."
I'd never heard the term "gender fluid" before. Was that something you drink from a gender blender? I told them I couldn't make it because I was so incensed that they referred to me as Luca when in fact that morning I was Lucetta.
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Post by RSM789 on Apr 13, 2019 15:00:09 GMT -8
I always thought my gender fluid was needed to procreate
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Post by Bick on Apr 13, 2019 15:02:41 GMT -8
Just shocking that college students who think like this could find themselves $100-200k in student loan debt.
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Post by Luca on Apr 13, 2019 15:11:38 GMT -8
That's funny
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Post by Bick on Apr 13, 2019 19:10:08 GMT -8
A few months ago I received a flyer for an upcoming conference regarding "Medical Issues in Transgender and Gender Fluid Patients." Good grief...you have a conference about those issues? How about a simple referral to the local asylum or whatever the hell today's PC term is? Oh and I've got a cure for whatever you want to call that illness as well. Spend 30 days under "observation" at that same mental hospital with the other patients. See if that helps them decide. Geez...I'm a Neanderthal |
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Cogito Sum, Ergo Sum? That explains it.