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20200809221723-is_trans_a_slur.org
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#+title: Is trans a slur
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Trans is merely the accurate descriptor. To my knowledge it's never been
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inherently negative, though the tone of a person using it may sometimes be. It
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has certainly been perverted into slurs, e.g. "tranny" It does seem some folks
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see the idea of transness so repulsive that they interpret it as a slur,
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something to fling at someone they see as less than, particularly when they fail
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to meet some perceived standard of appearance In that sense, it mirrors common
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derogatory use of "gay" Or, the good old misogynistic labeling of perceived
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insufficient masculinity as being "girly"
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Honestly, all three of those things likely had a significant impact on my own
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progress on a sense of self. That sense that being non hetero was a negative,
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that physical weakness or not liking trucks and fighting was negatively
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feminine, and that [[file:20200719003936-being_transgender.org][transness]] as depicted to me by way of popular media was
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either villainous and deceptive, a sexual perversion, or a joke. Those have
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always been the problems through. Not the word.
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#+title: Is cis a slur
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Cis is literally just the antonym of trans (see [[file:20200809221723-is_trans_a_slur.org][Is trans a slur]]).
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Oftentimes I see it used dismissively in the face of cis folks describing how
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they think a trans person feels or ought to feel / behave, in which case that
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intent is quite warranted. Other times it's a means of expressing exhaustion at
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folks who simply don't "get it", and don't particularly need to. That is to say,
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cisgenderedness is a form of [[file:20200809222134-privilege.org][Privilege]].
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20200809222134-privilege.org
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#+title: Privilege
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Privilege is not a negative construct, it is the absence of some struggle.
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It's not uncommon to want someone to shut up that fails to grasp a situation
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they lack any perspective of. An example would be having a cis person griping
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about how noisy trans folks are about wanting special treatment, missing the
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point of the trans person just wanting to not be treated as somehow subhuman.
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The cis person lacks perspective on what the trans person's experience is, and
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has the privilege of not having to.
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Alternatively, a white person with generational wealth discussing poor
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minorities and their behavior, whilst being blind to the history behind why
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they're in those positions. When folks bristle at their disparate experience
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being pointed out as though that itself is somehow oppressive, though... I'm
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picturing a talking head like Tucker Carlson raving about how "they" claim our
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country and it's history are "racist". Like, yes. That's a clear fact.
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#+title: Generational wealth
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Generational wealth is a form/symptom of [[file:20200809222134-privilege.org][Privilege]].
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Generational wealth doesn't mean you're one in a line of McDucks. It means
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you're not one in a line of the impoverished, and that is to a degree by design.
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The obvious things to look at there being redlining and loan preference, or the
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Tulsa race massacre.
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We are not so far from Levittown. Neither physically nor ideologically.
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