Cis People Please Stop Ruining All Our Words
Cis People Please Stop Ruining All Our Words
I remember when I was a young trans person and it was still acceptable to refer to oneself as “female-bodied” or “male-bodied”. Unfortunately, way too many people were saying things like “I don’t want male-bodied people in my bathroom!”, and we lost this valuable and useful term. Then, everyone collectively switched to the much more awkward “people with” language. Unfortunately, people took this…
This exact thing. In That One Notorious Feminist Community we’ve been trying to teach people to say “people who get gendered in a certain way” (it’s less awkward in finnish, trust me) when talking about the way being gendered in a certain way influences people’s experiences, but the grues have started to do that search-replace thing and now we’re constantly having to explain why “people who get gendered female” does not mean “people with uteruses” does not mean “assigned female at birth” does not mean “women”.
It’s so infuriating, the ‘clockwork people’ hypothesis suggests that it’s not really about them being intentionally obtuse and completely unwilling and incapable to conceptualize gender-adjacent space in any reasonable way, but it sure feels like it when dozens of essentially interchangeable grues do the exact same error on every single word we give them. Like, I sometimes feel the need to start a “capable of conceptualizing gender in non-shitty ways”-separatism so that the grues could grue with each other however they wish without harming people who matter, because educating them doesn’t seem to be having any kind of an effect. (Of course, in reality educating them is having a significant effect, it’s just happening way too slowly and the obtuse examples who misuse the words simply stick out, but my brain isn’t able to thoroughly internalize it)
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