Certainly to a point. But some words just don't catch on. Cis being one of them. It's strictly an ideological word that is quite useless. People don't use it in the their everyday language. The only time it's ever used is when speaking ideologically. Outside of that realm it has no meaning. And there is no requirement nor any logical or fun reason to use it.
“Watch” (the time keeping device) will fall out of the language in the future and will only be known to antiques collectors and horologists. It had its day, and now that we’ve all got clocks in our pockets, will be relegated to small, esoteric niches in society.
The point is that the complaint about using “cis” is a complaint about what happens to our language when a new element is placed within the society.
Yes, of course “made up terms” further the attempts of a minority to express society’s failure to adequately address injustices that the majority ignores.
No we don't. We already have a word for the norm. It's called woman or man. The word that differentiates from the norm is trans. We don't need a word to normalize the norm. It's already there.
The professional nomenclature will continue on its merry way, using “woman” for woman is still be the norm for message boards and such.
Already "clockwise" and "counterclockwise" are becoming obscure to the young 'uns.
It's useful when clarity is valued over anti-trans ideology.
Just because you object to the idea does not make the term meaningless.
English, like all living languages will continue to change with time and circumstances.
Now here is a term that has come to mean "I claim the last word so shut up".
“Propitiation” was probably “new” once-upon-a-time. That did gangbusters!
I generally use “fare thee well” for that and when I’ve already decided that “this topic is dead to me tonight”.
You mean when that type of clarity is demanded by trans ideology. The rest of us don't need it.
Allowing 13-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson to compete in girls’ sports “harms no one,” according to the family’s lawyers, but some of the 100 girls beaten by the transgender teen might disagree.
The West Virginia seventh-grader had a breakout track-and-field season this spring, defeating more than 100 girls in the discus and shot put. She beat out competitors 280 times and took one of the three coveted spots available to Bridgeport Middle School in both events for the conference championships, according to a court filing.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey brought a motion Tuesday detailing Becky’s march up the track-and-field rankings, saying the statistics show that Becky “is throwing farther than ever before — and improving much faster — than biologically female classmates.”
West Virginia argues transgender athlete is harming girls with track-and-field success
Allowing 13-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson to compete in girls’ sports “harms no one,” according to the family’s lawyers, but some of the 100 girls beaten by the transgender teen might disagree.www.washingtontimes.com
I think that precisely what you mean. The gender ideologues is cos because that wanted a word to pull the normal people into the abnormal world. It makes them a part of it and am ally of it. And we are refusing to be a part or an ally. We are men and we are women. If they wish to differentiate themselves in some way from the norm then be my guest. I'm not going to stop them. Just don't attempt to pull us into it. I'm simply a man. If you want to categorize yourself as something else okay. But I'm still just a man. My gender is man. Whatever they are is not real. It's something they want to be, but it's not real. You can claim to be aliagender or greygender but it's an illusion. It's not reality. You are still a man or a woman. There are only two genders. Man or woman.
