I had a coworker say cisgender was an offensive word. She is typically very openminded and supportive of the LGBTQ+ community so I was surprised.
Turns out she didn’t know what it meant. She just heard people use it with disdain and assumed it was offensive.
I do not understand other people.
Realizing people repeat things said by other people without taking the time to understand them should help you understand other people a lot.
The people using it with disdain are part of the problem.
I knew someone who refused to look up what words meant. If she didn't know one , she'd guess or infer from context, but never just look it up. I think she had some unaddressed trauma from school or childhood or something
There's a video in Portuguese of someone going around asking if people on the street supported homo sapiens marriage. It went viral a few years ago here.
We had people making a fuss because kids learn "Arabic numerals" in school. What did those people expect? Calculus with Roman numerals?
Just like the idiot with the form that asked "Heterosexual", "Homosexual", "Bisexual", or "Other, please describe", and he ticked "Other" and wrote "straight".
hell, i might do that and write gaaaaay
I don't even know what a heterosexual is but I'm pretty sure they shouldn't bring a baby into this world.
another casualty in the culture wars.
