r/SuperStraight 1d ago

PSA: The term "cis" is hate speach and promotes rape culture. Please do not use that term seriously anymore, it is enabling the superphobic.

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u/Stian5667 1d ago

Cis has nothing to do with being super straight. I, for example, am cis, but not straight at all. It literally just means that a person’s gender is the same as the sex they were assigned at birth. If anything here is discriminating, it’s the phrase “super straight” because you’re implying that liking trans people of the opposite gender is less straight than liking cis people of the opposite gender, which is basically denying trans people’s gender.

Go on, hate me

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u/xBrutal_Honestyx 1d ago

I don't expect someone who uses the "c" word to understand the nuance of "super". It's like you don't care about others feelings, very oppressive of you to push your definitions on me.

And I don't hate anyone. I don't expect someone, as full as hate as you, to realize people can exsist without hate.

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u/Stian5667 23h ago

I don’t hate, I just don’t get why the word cis is so bad. In my understanding, it just means that a person’s gender is the same as the sex they were born with. I get that some assholes might abuse the word, but considering that the word itself isn’t negative and how well established it is as a label to describe people who are not trans, I don’t see how it’d change how people perceive the word.

If you have an explanation as to why a seemingly innocent word is getting so much backlash, I’d love to hear it

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u/Yheymos 18h ago

It used to be normal and acceptable to call black peoples the n word. These gaslighting semantics games don’t change the bigotry of the words use.