Current Affairs What is Woke ?

[Charro]

Dame Sheila Hancock says Jesus Christ would have been cancelled if he were alive​

Dame Sheila Hancock says Jesus Christ would have been cancelled if he were alive

Actor believes religious preacher would have been the victim of cancel culture

www.independent.co.uk

Sounds like she has no idea what happened to him the first time around..

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

 

[NeilMorepies]

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

I do try…

 

[GoldenToffee]

I just learned they've come up with a term that describes being female or male. As if 'female' or 'male' isn't quite enough. What the!

'Gisgender'
Cisgender is a term that is used to describe people whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. For example, someone who was assigned female at birth (AFAB) and identifies as a woman is a cisgender woman.

No longer can you call a woman a woman; she needs to be a cisgender woman - ffs.

Madness!

 

[ChesterBlue]

I just learned they've come up with a term that describes being female or male. As if 'female' or 'male' isn't quite enough. What the!

'Gisgender'
Cisgender is a term that is used to describe people whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. For example, someone who was assigned female at birth (AFAB) and identifies as a woman is a cisgender woman.

No longer can you call a woman a woman; she needs to be a cisgender woman - ffs.

Madness!

You can still use male or female though. You literally just did, and no ‘woke’ Stasi kicked down your door.

 

[GoldenToffee]

You can still use male or female though. You literally just did, and no ‘woke’ Stasi kicked down your door.

Why is 'cisgender' a thing though? Is there the need for a less offensive way of saying man/woman?

 

[datblygu]

Why is 'cisgender' a thing though? Is there the need for a less offensive way of saying man/woman?

Why get annoyed by it, it doesn't hurt anyone. If you don't like it, just don't use it.

 

[Xizor]

I just learned they've come up with a term

Who is "they" here? Anyone can 'come up' with words if they feel the current vocabulary is lacking, language evolves that way naturally if the words catch on because there's a use for them.

Is there the need for a less offensive way of saying man/woman?

I don't think it's about offence at all, it's just a handy word to be more precise when having a discussion where being able to refer to non-trans people might be useful. If you don't have those discussions maybe you can't see a need, but it's not really a problem to you if other people are using words you don't, is it?

 

[Jebus_lives]

I just learned they've come up with a term that describes being female or male. As if 'female' or 'male' isn't quite enough. What the!

'Gisgender'
Cisgender is a term that is used to describe people whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. For example, someone who was assigned female at birth (AFAB) and identifies as a woman is a cisgender woman.

No longer can you call a woman a woman; she needs to be a cisgender woman - ffs.

Madness!

Who is 'they'?

 

[Jebus_lives]

Why is 'cisgender' a thing though? Is there the need for a less offensive way of saying man/woman?

Why do you assume it's about offence and not, for example, medical reasons?

 

[NeilMorepies]

 

[GoldenToffee]

Why do you assume it's about offence and not, for example, medical reasons?

It's obviously about offence, it always is. What possible reason could there be otherwise to require another term for a female or male person? Cis = You are born one gender and you are still that gender. Hopefully nobody attempts to force people to use such terminology like they tried in Canada.

 

[Harryflashman]

On the whole ‘woke’ language debate , there are words I wouldn’t say in front of my mates mums ,or my late mum when she was alive . Certain language id never use , is that because I’m woke or they are or because I’m just being respectful in not using language that would offend them . Feels like just not using words that don’t offend people in front of them is being a decent human rather than woke and it doesn’t feel like it’s new .

 

[Xizor]

It's obviously about offence, it always is.

Coining a new word is always about offence?

In this case it seems people online discussing trans issues in the 90s wanted a quick term to be able to refer to non-trans people. If your viewpoint is that a transwoman is a woman and a transman is a man then it just makes sense to have a self-clarifying word.

Saying "Why do we need more words" just belies a lack of understanding of language in general. There's always some new specificity that our language currently doesn't cover and people will naturally fill in that gap with something that makes sense. In this case 'cis' can be thought of as the opposite of 'trans' in terms of latin prefixes so it all makes perfect sense.

You may never need a word to cover that specificity, but others clearly do or the word wouldn't have caught on.

Of course all of this assumes you're asking questions in good faith rather than just having a performative tantrum.

 

[wandyr79]

Why is 'cisgender' a thing though? Is there the need for a less offensive way of saying man/woman?

New words are created for existing things all the time. Really nothing to get too bothered about.

 

[wandyr79]

I just learned they've come up with a term that describes being female or male. As if 'female' or 'male' isn't quite enough. What the!

'Gisgender'
Cisgender is a term that is used to describe people whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. For example, someone who was assigned female at birth (AFAB) and identifies as a woman is a cisgender woman.

No longer can you call a woman a woman; she needs to be a cisgender woman - ffs.

Madness!

Oh and there is this.

The prefix cis- is Latin and means on this side of. The term cisgender was coined in 1994 as an antonym to transgender, and entered into dictionaries starting in 2015 as a result of changes in social discourse about gender.

It has been around for 30 years and you have only just learnt about it now, so 'they' haven't replaced other words at all. As my previous post alluded to, antonyms & synonyms exist, get over it.