Me: It’s a cishet!
Them: /is a horrible bigot/
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Dont cishet literaly just mean cisgender heterosexual?
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Yep!
Hey, does anyone have the flagged posts written down anywhere? I came in too late to see it, advising Havie on XOR. I like to keep insults for the future to keep me motivated. PM me?
Well, all I remember is him calling you a c*nt, in bold, so I flagged that shit as soon as I saw it. Not in my house bb.
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Is that such a big swear in America? Over here we throw it around pretty often. Still, I would like the entire post for my trophy case… do any mods have it? Yes? No? Please?
/wipes my filthy autistic nb cripple hands all over this thread/ mine now no white cishet men
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Something about you being a fucker and having a burning hate for you and SJW. The regular.
So seriously I saw a lot of people get pissed for being called cishet and now I’m just confused like its not an insult like what people want to have the right to call us but they still get pissed if we use it but I dont know another way to say it because saying normal feel wrong. I’m normal and I’m not a cishet. Is it the feeling of being treated like how they want to treat us that does that or am I missing something because I dont understand any other reason why someone would get pissed at something like that.
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Because it sounds insulting so unless you bother to know what it means. They just like oh it looks like cisgender shit! I’m offended, even though I just assumed.
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At least four memes came into my head pretty much instantly that would work perfectly in that scenario.
A memedump like that would just make my day. I’d pay for memes anyway, but this seems especially applicable. Seconded.
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So basicaly they just get pissed because they didnt bother to look up what it meant. Mmmmmmmm…
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Good lord. We’re not calling for straight white men to be cast out of all media forever (well most of us aren’t, I can’t speak for @Laguz ;)).
But straight white male narratives unarguably dominate literature, film and tv, and video games. It’s tiring. In your own post you refer to the straight, white, cis, het, able, etc. experience as “normal.” For those of us who are outside that category, it’s exasperating.
Why do we have to be limited to what you can relate to? Why do schools teach Catcher in the Rye as a classic but the Bell Jar is women’s lit? (I know both those examples are hella white, sorry). I’ve read some fantastic African literature that is never going to see the inside of an American high school English class, that straight white male etc. folk won’t bother with because they don’t want to read from a Nigerian woman’s perspective. TV and film are still majority white and male, although it’s fading somewhat. Video games are ridiculously white and male, to the point that grizzled white man protagonists are nearly interchangeable.
Look, I don’t have any problem with straight white male protagonists. My problem is that it’s almost always the only thing on offer. I don’t hate vanilla ice cream, but sometimes we want pistachio, or rocky road, or taro.
And people like seeing other people like themselves, especially when it’s so rare. I loved reading a lot of the online reaction to the Netflix Luke Cage series when it came out - there were SO many black nerds who were stoked to see THEIR shit on TV. Maybe it’s not your cuppa but everyone deserves that representation. Whether bi/pan/trans/disabled or anything else.
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That’s what I’m assuming. I mean I thought it was an insult until I looked it up/figured it out.
I alway assumed it meant what it meant to be honest. I can understand how it can sound insulting but dang friendo we’re on internet if you’re not sure you’re literaly 5 sec away from it.
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Ok, very serious question here, how do people pronounce ‘cishet’? It’s one of those words I think I’ve only ever seen written down. I guess it’s ‘siz-hett’, but I’m always tempted to say it ‘si-shett’.
Cis, rhymes with “sis”, as in “my sister is transgender”, het, as in “Tea is the local heterophobe”, rhymes with “net” as in “look at this net, that I just found”.
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I alway said cis-het but I assume that those who get pissed hear the other version first. In a way I feel like we should use a new word but on the other hand its such an insignificant thing that is so easy ti look up that I think they can bother to take 2 sec to learn to to live with others. Its not as if we didnt have to learn to deal with demanding people so why shouldnt they.
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You know, I questioned myself a bit going in here. The thing is, if people don’t interact, shit just gets worse. You see that word Laguz used? Cishet? You want to know what the Urban Dictionary definition of that word is?
“An abbreviation of cisgendered (opposite of “transgender”) heterosexual: a person that identifies as the sex they were born as and are attracted to the opposite. Mostly used in social justice circles as an ad hominem attack to people who have to audacity to be born identifying with their birth gender and have an opinion different than theirs/zheirs/xirs.”
Let me ask you, do you think the person that wrote that definition is friends with any trans people? Honestly, probably not. Likewise, do you think people who use the word “cishet” sincerely are friends with any people who actually are cisgendered heterosexuals? Honestly, probably not. Wanna know a little secret? The easiest way to get someone to stop being mean to you is to just be nice to them. You want people to stop demonizing minorities such as yourself? Just go say hi. Introduce yourself. Become friends. At the very least, you ought to try to be nice.
I’d like to not be ostracized because of who I am, so allow me to take my own advice.
I’m sorry that I wrote that post. I really am. I don’t want to start conflict, I just want equality. If I could, I’d change popular culture so that it was more diverse than it currently is. The thing is, I can’t. I thought I might be able to encourage equality here, in a place that actively enforces tolerance. I guess I was wrong.
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Cishet is just a description I don’t see it as insulting and i’m one. What’s so bad about being an SJW anyway.
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That’s a pretty darn big assumption you’re making.
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Actually, no. You were an ass through and through. The person who wrote that thinks it’s an insult. But, it isn’t. Any person would know that if they spent enough time around a community like this. And even if you haven’t you don’t get to assume it is an insult right off the bat. I was cishet for years. Now I’m slightly less het, but do you think I walked around all those years to anyone who called me straight insulting them because I didn’t know that’s what they were calling me?
Just because you feel it’s offensive to you or an attack doesn’t mean you get to come back and call people cunts and little fuckers. Being rude in the first place isn’t the answer. You won’t have to be nice if the person is civil, even if they get pissed. It serves no purpose. Pick your battles my friend, and maybe take your own advice.
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Is it a noticeably bigger assumption than this one? I don’t know everything. I’m taking an educated guess.
I don’t know everything, dude. I’m just taking an educated guess.