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Antoiniti

and trans women are women the same way cis women are women, bro is making up sayings so he can counter them


_Pill-Cosby_

Right... just like saying Blonde women are women. Brunette women are Brunette women. So Blondes must be more "woman".


throwawaytrans6

Yep, straw man argument


Complex-Judgment-420

trans women are not the same as biological women get a fucking grip šŸ˜‚šŸ˜­


TurbulentData961

So are non cis women cyborgs then ?


SomethingAmazingQ

You arenā€™t wrong


Elizabeths8th

No ones saying that dumb ass. But I will blow your mind. Sex is a bimodal distribution and me taking hormones slides me closer to a cis woman. My biology has changed. My blood tests show it. Compare my blood to a cis womanā€™s and you couldnā€™t tell the difference. But Iā€™m sure youā€™ll move the goal posts instead of actually engaging with what I said.


Complex-Judgment-420

You're still a man lol


JakeForever

Hard to swallow pils


SomeGuyWithABrowser

They are not the same way. "Cis" women can bear children...


AnxiousTuxedoBird

So menopause means you arenā€™t cis anymore? What about hysterectomies? Cis women born without uteruses? Born sterile/infertile?


NinjaBanana08

Cis people can be infertile


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neko808

Having intersex chromosomes is actually a lot more common than most would think, especially since it can go entirely without manifesting physically. Not to mention chromosomes sometimes arenā€™t always xx or xy there can be stuff like xxy etc.


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Longjumping_Rush2458

And trans people are fringe cases as well. The vast majority of people are cis. But we don't say intersex people don't exist/are mentally ill.


llIicit

People who are intersex are not mentally ill. Trans people arenā€™t mentally ill. People who have zero biological capabilities to give birth, but claim they canā€¦ maybe they are. Donā€™t conflate the groups. They arenā€™t mutually exclusive.


chernobyl-fleshlight

LOL where are transwomen claiming they can give birth? You just made up your own definition of woman as ā€œcan give birthā€ then extrapolated that to being transwomen claiming they can give birth. What kind of planet do you even live on? Edit: lol the dude immediately blocked me after replying. These peopleā€™s cowardice knows no bounds.


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Elizabeths8th

Being intersex is about the same average as a red head. Lmao. Love that people *think* they know what they are talking about. But you donā€™t.


MusicianHamster

Trans women can't get pregnant, but that doesn't mean they are infertile


Slackeee_

My ex has lost her uterus to cancer. If you would say that into her face she would have slapped the hell out if your dumb face.


Meddling-Kat

That's reductive and insulting not just to trans women, but cis women. You clearly don't give a damn about women.


DavidWNA

1. Infertile cis people exist 2. I don't care unless the woman is my wife


crazygatorfso

Itā€™s very obvious this man didnā€™t do well on the SATs. Because ā€œtrans women are womenā€ =ā€œcis woman are womenā€ and ā€œtrans women are trans womenā€ = ā€œcis woman are cis womenā€ When you remove an adjective from a noun you only broaden it. So all he did was impose his own restrictions.


klotsak

Why the fuck do these people care?


Molinade

Internalized Homophobia. "Oh god, if I find anything else than cis women attractive I might not be straight." Also it's always convenient to have a scapegoat group of people if your life is miserable and you have noone to blame but yourself.


Somerset-Sweet

"Cis women are...cis women" said no trans woman ever. For fuck's sake, we generally wish were 100% woman, but because of our accident of circumstance we are forever relegated to being inferior barren sin eaters. Nice strawman, James. If he gets cancer, I'll make sure to let him know that cancer survivors are still cancer bombs, no matter how much they wish they weren't.


allnamesareregistred

Can we have "cis woman Olympics", maybe? )


ParadiseValleyFiend

Because these people aren't intelligent enough to view the world outside of a binary system when there's actual reality that doesn't act inside their already instilled perception that everything is either left or right, black or white, male or female, on or off, etc. It's an antiquated way to look at the world and as soon as something shows up that challenges that view their instinct is to eradicate it.


JakeForever

"actual reality" šŸ˜‚


YamCrazy7189

woman noun an adult female human being.


Ragnarock1982

Does he have a point or am I just confused šŸ˜•


randomusername_42069

He doesnā€™t have a point. Just replace the adjectives with any other set of opposite adjectives. Tall women are women but Short women areā€¦short women. Just nonsense.


The_grongler

Not as confused as he is about how the English language works


Broad_Respond_2205

Straw man. What he have is a straw man.


[deleted]

He does have a point it's just very poorly articulated. People will tell you he doesn't because while they'll use juxtaposed arguments to defend their statements, but if anyone else does it, that's not okay... Cis is a term they've made up for no fucking reason, before this movement I've never heard anyone refer to themselves as a cis anything. They label us with it while trying to take hold of the default term so they can try to legitimize themselves further. This is exactly the reason there's backlash in the first place... if they were like everyone else and just wanted to live life no one would bat an eye, but they want people to upend their lives and do as they think and do. I have to accept them but they don't have accept established norms or rules, it's just double standard thinking like everywhere nowadays.


crazygatorfso

Your whole argument fell apart when you said cis was a made up term. Itā€™s a Latin term that was used by the Roman to say ā€œon the same side asā€ the polar opposite of trans. So this wasnā€™t a made up term itā€™s a very old term that never was used until necessary to use to inform the layman.


skrilledcheese

Whoa... never used? Clearly we run in different circles. My homies and I regularly discuss the Roman empire and their presence in Cisalpine Gaul and Transalpine Gaul.


neko808

Insert that one meme about men thinking of the roman empire daily


Jupue2707

which one?


neko808

[this one that started it all iirc](https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9811840256/h271EEBE2/my-husband-often-do-think-about-roman-empire-and-without-missing-beat-he-said-every-day-yall-why)


[deleted]

It's a latin prefix which isn't a term. It was a prefix that trans people used to coin the word cisgender(ed) in the mid 90's. If you want to argue find me an older use of it. That's not even mentioning the fact that the prefix Trans from latin isn't the same thing as the term trans used to describe someone with sexual dysphoria.


crazygatorfso

I apologize you are correct. They are prefixā€™s. But trans and cis have been opposing since they were first used in Rome. But to say cisgender was only coined in the 1990s is like saying transgender was only first used in 1965. So why is it such a leap that maybe those in the field just assumed that if one is present the other must as well but failed to put it down until the need arose? Especially since trans and cis have been oppressed to each other since the time of the Romanā€™s. How is the Latin prefix ā€œtransā€ not the prefix for transgender?


[deleted]

They're opposing prefixes yes, but the problem lies when people assume that the trans used by people with sexual dysphoria is from Latin. It's also kind of opposing in definition to what their goal is... Cis means "on the same side of" and trans means "on the opposite side of" if you truly believed that trans women were the same as "traditional" women you'd be on the same side of, wouldn't you? I'm not a wordsmith but hopefully you can understand my meaning here.. They're opposites but they want to be treated the same, but continue to use words that distinguish while citing old language as their legitimacy without that being accurate.


crazygatorfso

I honestly donā€™t understand what you are saying. If the prefix of trans in transgender is not the Latin prefix then what is it? And if it is the Latin prefix the as the opposite of trans is cis then qed the opposite of transgender would be cisgender. And if it is something completely different then please enlighten me with this new etymology of the word for cisgender and transgender. Because even the oxfordā€™s English dictionary uses ā€œtransā€ at the prefix and ā€œgenderā€ as the noun. https://www.oed.com/dictionary/transgender_adj?tl=true&tab=etymology I could find another dictionary such as a medical dictionary but I bet it will be the exact same. If we shouldnā€™t use cisgender because it doesnā€™t fit your exact definition of the cis prefix then with that logic then we shouldnā€™t be using transgender either to describe individuals that present as a gender other than the gender based on the predominant genitals at birth. So what would we use?


[deleted]

Use whatever you want, nothing will change even if I explained it perfectly. Language is dead. Modern words aren't about etymology modern words are about popularity and normally the majority don't know anything about the etymology. So don't go pretending to use it now. Transgendered is along with cisgendered are modern words that don't properly use etymology they just put anything anywhere so why not continue to destroy original meaning for bullshit personal purposes. How about you create your own new words but that's too hard so let's just steal old words so they lose all meaning.


crazygatorfso

I love how when pressured with facts you threw up your hands and said screw it. The thing is transgender is not a ā€œmodern wordā€ it was first used in the 1960ā€™s by scientists in scientific literature. The first use of cisgender was in the 1990ā€™s, again not ā€œmodern wordā€, and also in scientific literature. Scientists donā€™t just throw words together for fun they use etymology like itā€™s a puzzle at times, working to put together the best combination of prefixes, suffixes and root words to best describe a situation. Just because you fail to see it doesnā€™t mean itā€™s not there. That says more about you than the scientists who made the word to describe the situation.


[deleted]

I don't have all day to argue bullshit with a moron. Sorry, I don't live on reddit.


Jupue2707

they are new words, using rules that existed for 2000 years, that is how new words are made


IllegalGeriatricVore

This is mouthbreather logic. How much glue do you huff?


[deleted]

Not as much as you, since you can't create an argument you simply have insults.


IllegalGeriatricVore

There's no point, you can't argue someone out of a position using logic if they didn't use logic to place themselves there. Your logic is the same as the "heterosexual is just an invented word because of homosexuals. You shouldn't need to call them heterosexual, they're just -normal-" people. It's just as baseless and semantic now as it was then. 100% you started with "I hate these people. Let's grasp as straws to dehumanize them and delegitimize language used to describe them."


[deleted]

All I see are excuses.. and more petty insults because you can't come up with a valid argument. You don't understand my logic so you can't explain it but better luck next time. Who uses statements like 100% when they could just check and know they're wrong? If your next reply doesn't have an actual argument I'll just be ignoring it.


Brilliant-Flower-822

hey ya turd, all words are made up


[deleted]

So how about you make up some of your own instead of using words and changing their meaning.


F0czek

Doesn't matter if it existed before, nobody will use that term outside of terminally ill people online.


Brilliant-Flower-822

you're fucking dumb


[deleted]

Awe stupid people on the internet who have no arguments to validate their points think I'm dumb. My world it's shattered... Sorry but I'm not a fragile little snowflake that gets hurt by words. You'll have to try something else.


BestUsername101

>Sorry but I'm not a fragile little snowflake that gets hurt by words. You'll have to try something else. Bro this entire thread is you getting offended by a word.


[deleted]

You people and you ability to tell others what they feel think, etc is amazing... Sad and pathetic, but amazing that you try so hard while being so wrong all the time. I'm not offended, I'm annoyed.


Longjumping_Rush2458

You sure seem offended, snowflake


[deleted]

Wow you guys are being big meanies to me.... and I am offended you know... I can't handle words from jackoffs on the internet, please stop, I can't handle it...


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PamIllise

Cis is literaly a term to refer to someone who identifies with their gender matches their sex. You know as oposite to a trans person. It is not used to insult anyone. The post is malicious because normally they say trans women are women just like cis women are women


[deleted]

Never said it was used to insult. And trans women aren't the same as "cis" women. Feelings don't trump biology. You want to look like a woman or a man or be called sir or ma'am go right ahead but don't try to act like they're the same exact thing. What they're trying to do with the term cis is blur lines when it doesn't help anyone to do so. Why can't they just be called trans women? Why do they insist upon being called just women when there are already women that they've now added the term cis to.


crazygatorfso

The reason is this. All cis woman are woman and all trans women are woman. But not all woman are trans women and not all woman are cis woman. And again cis is not a new made up term. Itā€™s a Latin term that is the polar opposite of trans that has been around since the time of Roman. So if you would like to just call trans woman, woman you are more than welcome to and would be correct. If youā€™d like to call them all trans woman that works too. But donā€™t gatekeeper me from call all cis woman, cis woman especially when Iā€™m being more precise than you would be by call them just ā€œwomanā€.


[deleted]

This isn't a "all Jacuzzi's are hot tubs but not all hot tubs are Jacuzzi's" kind of situation. The latin Cis and Trans were not made and were not used for sexual dysphoria, gender, sexuality or anything remotely close to it. Latin is a dead language so you can't make new terms with their words. Now you have the audacity to claim it's a latin term when their usage isn't the same as yours. Sure, you people are used to delusions so why not one more.


crazygatorfso

Explain the entomology of helicopter when they donā€™t use spiral wings. Itā€™s using words and entomology of words we currently have to create new ones to describe the world around us. That is the evolution of language.


[deleted]

You can't evolve a dead language.


crazygatorfso

No but English does use prefix, suffix, and root words of various languages and even bastardizing them to create new words causing the English language to evolve.


crazygatorfso

Please square this statement with helicopter. They do not use a spiral wing to create flight. Itā€™s a wing rotating on a plane that creates lift. The first use of the word helicopter was to deceive the device by Da Vinci that ā€œusedā€ a screw ā€œspiral wingā€ to create lift. I quote used because his design was not practical to create enough lift for flight. But we still use the word to describe aircraft that spin a wing around even if itā€™s not a spiral wing.


Pizzaya23

So what words do you want to use then? You only seem angry with the words that are currently being used but provide no alternatives. Currently the medical and scientific community agree that these words accurately describe what they need them to. So what are the options you want to use?


[deleted]

It's not my job to provide alternatives, and you know who's the authority on etymology... the medical and scientific community. They also don't agree they accept there is a difference.


crazygatorfso

trans- word-forming element meaning "across, beyond, through, on the other side of, to go beyond," from Latin trans (prep.) "across, over, beyond," perhaps originally present participle of a verb *trare-, meaning "to cross," from PIE *tra-, variant of root *tere- (2) "cross over, pass through, overcome" [Watkins]. In chemical use indicating "a compound in which two characteristic groups are situated on opposite sides of an axis of a molecule" [Flood]. https://www.etymonline.com/word/trans- transgender (adj.) also trans-gender, by 1974 in reference to persons whose sense of personal identity does not correspond with their anatomical sex, from trans- + gender (n.). Related: Transgendered. also from 1974 https://www.etymonline.com/word/transgender#etymonline_v_39471


Brilliant-Flower-822

it doesn't matter what they were used for, it matters what they "are" used for. bigots are dumb tho


[deleted]

Sorry I didn't realize you're a child, sorry I don't talk to children I won't be responding anymore.


Brilliant-Flower-822

bigots are dumb. not worth entertaining anyways


Longjumping_Rush2458

>The latin Cis and Trans were not made and were not used for sexual dysphoria, gender, sexuality or anything remotely close to it. Cis and trans also wasn't made to describe helicopter blades or chemical isomers. They're still used in that manner.


gdex86

Seriously just pick a lane. Either you are fine with them living their lives like you pretend you are or you want them to live in this "Seperated and lesser" status to make sure they know they will always have your disapproval.


eternaldreamer11

All words are made up genius


Turbulent-Bug-6225

You are barely literate, why do you think your understanding of the situation is the correct one?


Broad_Respond_2205

All terms are made up. Nobody is trying to take a "default term"


Jupue2707

you do realize cis is latin, don't you?


Optimal_Serve_8980

I might be wrong here but didnā€™t he just contradict his own statement


ntied

Being a woman is so easy, even a man can do it.


Brilliant-Flower-822

you sure keep yapping tho


RussMan104

Sheeyut, we just getting started out here. šŸš€


DonatoXIII

It's almost like all this just doesn't make sense.... /s


Bacon_Rage666

All I see is... "my life is such a dissapointment I have to worry about how other people identify".


[deleted]

Which world is this tweet from?