. I was silenced by one of them and the reason given was because I was cis and therefore had no speech rights in that space
I know this conversation is a bit old now, in internet years, and I should be avoiding it anyway (ironically, this is one of the few safe spaces I feel exist for all of us, trans and not, to be pedants about language)--but this is almost always how I have encountered the word and probably the root of a lot of dislike for it. Only a few times have I heard it used in another way--by the particular sort of Social Justice Pharisee who wants to speaketh loudly the right buzzwords so everyone can see how they're so much better than everyone else.
This post is actually the first time I've ever seen anybody just use it as a descriptive term. Clearly I'm hanging out in the wrong places on the internet. (Not sarcastic!)
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Date: 2014-03-22 07:44 pm (UTC)I know this conversation is a bit old now, in internet years, and I should be avoiding it anyway (ironically, this is one of the few safe spaces I feel exist for all of us, trans and not, to be pedants about language)--but this is almost always how I have encountered the word and probably the root of a lot of dislike for it. Only a few times have I heard it used in another way--by the particular sort of Social Justice Pharisee who wants to speaketh loudly the right buzzwords so everyone can see how they're so much better than everyone else.
This post is actually the first time I've ever seen anybody just use it as a descriptive term. Clearly I'm hanging out in the wrong places on the internet. (Not sarcastic!)