And please don't call me cishet, unless you are cishet yourself. I really don't like being called cishet.
Sure, what language do you prefer to indicate non trans, heterosexual when I refer to you?
The terms "heterosexual" and "homosexual" were only coined in the latter 19th century. People have been having sex with each other for much longer than the last two-hundred years (even between members of the same sex), but somehow we made due without needing such terms (which, ironically, are now considered passe by progressives and the cultural avant-garde). I refuse to use them because I refuse to reify what they claim to refer to.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/03/against-heterose...
Not the commenter you're answering to, but... what's wrong with the words you did just use?
Re:The Euphemism Treadmill
by StevenWaterman on Thursday August 22, 2024 @10:23AM
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Non-trans is quite "othering". It implies that being trans is the default
In the same way that we say queer instead of "non-straight"
Nothing. They are just long and have the same meaning. The Latin opposite of "trans-" prefix is "cis-". See the use in terms like cislunar vs translunar.
You... don't like being called heterosexual and cisgender?
Or is it just because cishet was "created" by gay people, so therefore it's automatically bad and you don't want it?
I'll never understand this mentality. "no dude I'm normal don't call me that shit!!" Like... come on.
To be clear I'm not saying this is YOUR mentality 100%. But whenever is see people say this, almost every time, this is their mentality.
But also, don't call us crippled. (Some people with disabilities do reclaim that term.)
Likewise, I call myself queer, but don't call me queer unless you are also queer.
Language like this fascinates me, because not only does it evolve, there is insider and outsider use. The cishet community can use lgbtq+, and that describes the same group of people as queer, but it means something quite radically different. Queer is steeped in radical implication in a way lgbtq+ is not.
Nothing in my post is meant to judge you, reader, more to say, "wow! Language is fucking wild!" I'm excited to see where it goes over the remainder of my life.