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Banning the term "cis"

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OlennasWimple · 06/07/2016 23:36

Apologies if this had already been done, but can MNHQ consider banning the term "cis", given how horrifically offensive so many users of MN find it?

I don't think I need to set out the background and reasoning to this request (but can do so if it would help!)

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venusinscorpio · 09/07/2016 12:17

MY post got deleted

Your post where you called all the gender critical posters bitches, let's not forget.

Bambambini · 09/07/2016 11:58

I think if it comes down to the issue of "men can change sex to become women and are every much a woman as any woman" then it's hard to debate - like if you believe in god or not or if the earth is flat rather a globe.

Saying that i have changed my mind on it. I would probably have been totally supportive if transfolk and bought into the born in the wrong body belief. Actually looking thinking and reading up on it - i've realised i can't deny a logical truth just to be nice and tolerant. I can't say the sky is green if it makes someone feel better but what really annoys me is being forced to say or think it.

PaulDacresMicroPenis · 09/07/2016 11:38

As I said on the other thread Louw you are now pretty much free to lie or wildly exaggerate about what was posted on that deleted thread, nobody is in a position to prove anything because the whole thread was deleted instead of just the posts that are against MN Talk guidelines.

ThreadandInk · 09/07/2016 11:32

I believe their are clear guidelines about nasty comments. Those are the comments which should be deleted. Not opposing viewpoints, not women's real life experiences.

Louw1988 · 09/07/2016 11:30

Yes but it wasn't a debate was it, it was people shouting me down and being very nasty not actually listening to the other side. That's not a debate!

ThreadandInk · 09/07/2016 11:26

Exactly. We should be able to debate this.

Louw1988 · 09/07/2016 11:25

I replied to a thread sticking up for transgender people and MY post got deleted despite people posting very disrespect things about men to female transgender! I gave up in the end, clearly those people were never going to accept it so what's the point discussing it with them to then get slaughtered yourself?

ThreadandInk · 09/07/2016 11:20

MN have deleted the other thread. I have started a new thread about the shutting down of female voices.

LadyStarkOfWinterfell · 09/07/2016 11:06

Sorena is 1/2 the way towards getting it. She just has lots of snowflake friends and doesn't want to hurt their feelings (admirable) and is in the midst of cognitive dissonance where she's trying to square the circle. I think lots of us have been there. I think we did plant some seeds.

blinkowl · 09/07/2016 11:05

drunk person not drink person. And I have no excuse

blinkowl · 09/07/2016 11:04

Prize to Gertrude for the best drunk writing ever! Sounded exactly like a drink person in my mind as I read it.

Hope you've escaped the hangover!

VestalVirgin · 09/07/2016 11:00

I wonder what happened to Sorena. Am a bit disappointed that she wanted to buy some unicorn milk, but didn't reply to my explanation of the origins of patriarchy.

I get that unicorn milk is magic and sparkly and intriguing, but ... I don't know. It's a bit disappointing. Hmm

BeyondVulvaResistance · 09/07/2016 09:36
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NeedACleverNN · 09/07/2016 09:26

I think Gertrude was a bit tiddled last night Grin

GertrudeSmellsDivine · 09/07/2016 09:24

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GarlicStake · 09/07/2016 02:38

Grin Gertrude Grin

GertrudeSmellsDivine · 09/07/2016 00:24

Nloodu hell I staggered on here lookong for thevdrumk thresd. I tead p 34 of this threD abd it's so much weirder.

CoteDAzur · 09/07/2016 00:13

"I mean, in biology, not just humans, there are male and female reproductive organs, and if we call all women's bodies female sexed, then you would need another word to describe a female body, uterus, vulva, chromosomes etc etc."

What on God's green Earth are you talking about? Confused

Women are female and they have XX chromosomes in their female bodies that include parts such as uterus, vulva etc.

What seems to be the problem?

JedRambosteen · 08/07/2016 21:45

I read those books too. Smile

FloraFox · 08/07/2016 21:08

Game

BeyondVulvaResistance · 08/07/2016 20:40

Tardis ?

OlennasWimple · 08/07/2016 20:40

Trills - thank you for correcting my medical error - and for reminding me about the fabulous Clan of the Cave Bear!

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SirVixofVixHall · 08/07/2016 20:37

Trills- Grin
Garlic Grin Grin

GarlicStake · 08/07/2016 20:11

Oh, good, can someone please go back in fictional time and give Ayla a fatal blow to the head?

Trills · 08/07/2016 19:42

VestalVirgin have you read the Earth's Children series (starting with Clan of the Cave Bear)?

In that the prehistoric society pretty much think that women are magic and they sometimes make babies, but Ayla (our protagonist, who is cleverer than everyone, obviously) works out that sex makes babies, and so a specific man is involved in the making of each individual baby, and inadvertently invents the patriarchy.

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