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Anonymous asked: What is it with all this, “Die cis scum,” stuff? I seriously don’t get it. You sound like you’re joking in the posts you’ve written about the phrase, but I can’t help but shake the feeling that this is really a growing movement of divisiveness and hatred within the LGBT community and that you’re helping it along with these posts. Do you really think that people who identify as their birth gender/sex should die or are scum? I thought you were more peaceful/rational than that.
(Source: youtube.com)
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Still don’t understand “die cis scum”? Tim Minchin would like to have a few words with you on word use and contextualizing human interactions.
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Why say “Die Cis Scum”
When you could be wishing death on people for something important? Like bad taste in music or movies.
Where do you think bad music and movies come from?
CIS PEOPLE.
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if you use “die cis scum” but then say “its not ok to tell anyone to kill themselves under any circumstance!!”
- stop
Maybe you don’t understand: those two phrases have nothing to do with each other. The robot uprising is inevitable. Trans* humans and transhumans will be granted asylum and maybe, just maybe, we’ll let the rest of you join us.
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Okay guys, let's start using "grue" as a slur for cis people.
“Grue,” short for “gender congruent,” has been suggested by Natalie Reed as a slur for cis people.
Why should one use it?
1. Lots of Tumblrs seem to need a slur of some kind (yeah I know, but let’s be practical here), and too many people are starting to think that “cis” itself is a slur.
2. It’s fucking hilarious.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2012/04/12/cis-is-not-slur-grues/
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Bi-phobia, The Cotton Ceiling, and Gold Stars (by Coquipirate)
tl;dw: There are plenty of reasons not to be attracted to someone, but them merely not validating your sexual orientation is a pathetic reason indeed.
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Ceiling Metaphors Are Used For Systemic Change
In case someone thought that the Cotton Ceiling was literally panties which trans women are attempting to rape their way through…
When women complain about the glass ceiling, it isn’t so we can guilt or shame our bosses into a promotion. Nor is it a statement that my company (or my boss) must be sexist because I didn’t get that last promotion. Many women who complain about the glass ceiling don’t want to be a CEO - or perhaps already are one. Rather than being interested in personal gain the main goal is to see an end to the old boys club in corporate boardrooms.
Discussing the glass ceiling is about identifying the systemic problems leading to the lack of women in workplace leadership despite being present in lower positions. It’s about an education system that doesn’t give girls the same support as boys. It’s about double standards in the workplace. It’s about internalized societal messages that women can’t succeed in science or business and shouldn’t try. It’s about customers and clients that don’t respect women in positions of authority. It’s about workplace harassment that makes many women decide it’s not worth it. It’s about how the companies that do promote women to positions of leadership risk having their stock prices go down or otherwise being seen as less than other companies.
All of these issues have parallels with the cotton ceiling. Discussing the cotton ceiling is about identifying the systemic problems leading to the lack of trans women in queer women’s sexual spaces and relationship networks, despite being present in non-romantic/sexual queer women’s spaces. It’s about feminist community and training that doesn’t give trans women the same support as cis women. It’s about double standards that celebrate sexually empowered behavior in cis women yet call that same behavior “male privilege” or “rape-y” when trans women do it. It’s about internalized messages that no one will ever love a freak like you so you shouldn’t even try. It’s about trans women in queer women sexual spaces who are treated disrespectfully and told we’re disgusting. It’s about harassment campaigns against trans women speaking out on this topic (including publishing work and personal email and phone contact). It’s about being hit on by someone who’s really really into you but turns cold when you disclose trans status. It’s about how cis women who are involved with trans women are told they aren’t real lesbians.
The call to discuss the cotton ceiling is a plea for an end to the shame and coercion trans women - and our cis partners - face. The anti-trans feminist activists who frame the cotton ceiling as a shaming tactic to coerce cis women to have sex with trans women are purposefully misinterpreting the metaphor it is based on. They frequently accuse trans women and trans-supportive cis women of not having an awareness or understanding of feminism from the 70s and 80s, however, when they dismiss the ceiling metaphor as coercion and shaming or as insincere attempts at personal gain, they clearly are the ones who lack understanding of second wave feminism - or are choosing to ignore it.
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The phrase “Cis Scum” needs to be retired. Now.
It will only bring more hate. You’re not being strong, you’re being a fucking discriminating asshole and a hypocrite. Spread the love to get love.
no you are just a terrible person
also that is ridiculous, spreading love is great if that’s what you want to do, but i think that if you are mandating that ~every~ trans* person should just shut up and be loving to people who actively hurt and oppress them, you probably need to rethink your life choices.
Die painfully cis scum.
Fine. DIE GRUE CRUD
(Source: artingafterdark)
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Die Cis Scum: A Mirror in the Face of Society
Whenever a trans* person says “die cis scum”, a
cisgrue is right there totally not getting it and saying shit like this:- These assholes are telling us that they get to veto tactics and rhetoric of minorities if they don’t think they are effective or could have repercussions from misunderstanding.
- They have said that privilege itself is meaningless in this discussion because people from industrialized non-impoverished countries can’t win the oppression olympics. They tell us that we shouldn’t complain about injustices in our midst and lives because it is worse somewhere else, because they would really like us to shut up.
- They ask us to give up our anger to avoid alienating others regardless of whether it robs us of one of our most powerful tools and motivating forces.
- They claim to simply be trying to look out for our best interest, because they’re so fucking concerned that what we say could backfire.
- They ask us to simply play nice, speak delicately and hope if we wait quietly someone with power will start doing the right thing.
I’m rather fond of her conclusion:
I repeat, fuck you.
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Is it offensive to ask that “dis cis scum” be changed to “die scum cis”?
I want my residence to be considered a safe place for any members of the trans community, and I would gladly let someone in danger or in need of recovery crash her while they seek help and recover.
I just really have issues with how this phrase is worded.
Meh, maybe I’ll get called trans-phobe for this. It just bugs me.
It’s not an issue of phobia here. I’m assuming from your wording that you’re cis. The issue is that the people who hold the power in society to wipe trans people from the face of the planet if they so choose (aka cis people) shouldn’t be dictating the terms of the acts of resistance from the oppressed class (aka trans* people). Everyone in society is constantly telling us how to act, how to dress, how to talk, how to access our health care, how to win our rights, etc. This one phrase, this one tiny fucking phrase, cis people want to control it too.
NOPE!
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My boyfriend just compared me being trans* to his manager being a furry.
That’s it. I’m fucking done. Congrats asshole, you just reaffirmed my thoughts in breaking up with you.AWW YEAH, DTMFA!
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quiltingqueer asked about Die Cis Scum
So… I have some friends who don’t seem to understand the whole die cis scum thing. and they’re pretty cool people… They just don’t get it. But I’m not quite sure how to explain it to them. I know that a lot of why it matters is power dynamics. The power lies with the cis people in this case. Is there anything else I’m missing? (sorry to bother, this is kind of a complex question and I tried to google and got porn XD)
~quiltingqueerLulz, there are those certain searches that must be done with Safe Search on.
For those who don’t yet know, “die cis scum” is a cry of solidarity amongst trans* people and resistance against cis people. (Cross-reference “the man”.)
Judging by the cis tears being shed all over tumblr, it’s working, and by “working” I mean it’s getting people to talk about trans* people who otherwise would be blithely ignoring us right now. ”But you’re being so mean!” they say. “Bad tr@nny, go to your room and think about what you’ve done!” Or else what?
Or else you’ll bully us? Call us names? Murder us? Take away our access to surgery or medication? Deny us jobs and housing? Refuse our access to the same public facilities everyone else takes for granted? Deny us our correct legal documents? Misname us, mispronoun us, mislabel us? Scapegoat us and teach your children to fear us?
PS. The correct slur for cis scum is “grue”. Cis is not a slur, but grue is.
Genderqueer with a touch of happy humanism.
