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[–][deleted] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Exactly. "Woman" is already, historically, the name of a disempowered class. Insisting that we now must use the prefix "cis-" is just salt in the wound, a new layer of compulsory disempowerment. Language is funny that way.

"we can expunge our guilt only by supporting their demands"

There is such a quasi-ritualistic structure to all of this. Have you noticed? We're always being pressed to "confess and atone" for the "original sin" of having been born who and what we are.

ETA examples of that just today:

[–]Spikygrasspod[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And we are, as a result, feeling rather salty.

Indeed, the ritual of confessing one's privilege-guilt is disturbing. I have a real problem with doing politics by admitting personal guilt for society-wide, structural problems. It doesn't make things better, and it distracts from and cloaks actual wrongdoers.

Yeah, I saw JKR's ovaries tweet and the r/PCOS thread. Incredible (in different ways). JK is powerful and witty. Meanwhile on r/PCOS, TRAs were insisting on the use of their preferred language as the only way to meet the standard of minimum human decency.

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I imagine -- I hope -- this is peaking a lot of users . . .

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Those like numbers give me strength.