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20200809221723-is_trans_a_slur.org

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+#+title: Is trans a slur
+
+Trans is merely the accurate descriptor. To my knowledge it's never been
+inherently negative, though the tone of a person using it may sometimes be. It
+has certainly been perverted into slurs, e.g. "tranny" It does seem some folks
+see the idea of transness so repulsive that they interpret it as a slur,
+something to fling at someone they see as less than, particularly when they fail
+to meet some perceived standard of appearance In that sense, it mirrors common
+derogatory use of "gay" Or, the good old misogynistic labeling of perceived
+insufficient masculinity as being "girly"
+
+Honestly, all three of those things likely had a significant impact on my own
+progress on a sense of self. That sense that being non hetero was a negative,
+that physical weakness or not liking trucks and fighting was negatively
+feminine, and that [[file:20200719003936-being_transgender.org][transness]] as depicted to me by way of popular media was
+either villainous and deceptive, a sexual perversion, or a joke. Those have
+always been the problems through. Not the word.

20200809222035-is_cis_a_slur.org

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+#+title: Is cis a slur
+
+Cis is literally just the antonym of trans (see [[file:20200809221723-is_trans_a_slur.org][Is trans a slur]]).
+
+Oftentimes I see it used dismissively in the face of cis folks describing how
+they think a trans person feels or ought to feel / behave, in which case that
+intent is quite warranted. Other times it's a means of expressing exhaustion at
+folks who simply don't "get it", and don't particularly need to. That is to say,
+cisgenderedness is a form of [[file:20200809222134-privilege.org][Privilege]].

20200809222134-privilege.org

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+#+title: Privilege
+
+Privilege is not a negative construct, it is the absence of some struggle.
+
+It's not uncommon to want someone to shut up that fails to grasp a situation
+they lack any perspective of. An example would be having a cis person griping
+about how noisy trans folks are about wanting special treatment, missing the
+point of the trans person just wanting to not be treated as somehow subhuman.
+The cis person lacks perspective on what the trans person's experience is, and
+has the privilege of not having to.
+
+Alternatively, a white person with generational wealth discussing poor
+minorities and their behavior, whilst being blind to the history behind why
+they're in those positions. When folks bristle at their disparate experience
+being pointed out as though that itself is somehow oppressive, though... I'm
+picturing a talking head like Tucker Carlson raving about how "they" claim our
+country and it's history are "racist". Like, yes. That's a clear fact.

20200809222553-generational_wealth.org

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+#+title: Generational wealth
+
+Generational wealth is a form/symptom of [[file:20200809222134-privilege.org][Privilege]].
+
+Generational wealth doesn't mean you're one in a line of McDucks. It means
+you're not one in a line of the impoverished, and that is to a degree by design.
+The obvious things to look at there being redlining and loan preference, or the
+Tulsa race massacre.
+
+We are not so far from Levittown. Neither physically nor ideologically.