Dissing Cis
Elon Musk labeled a nonsense postmodernist label a slur on Twitter. It was long overdue.
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A CONFEDERACY OF NUNCES
Yesterday former Liberal turned Progressive side-thorn Elon Musk slapped the original specious gender-queer theory neologisms, ‘cis/cisgendered,’ with the designation of “slurs” on Twitter. How long this will last, or if it will even go into effect, is anyone’s guess.
I posted the lead image of this piece on Twitter this morning using both “cis” and “cisgendered” but was ignored, even by the censorship bot, as usual. I’m left feeling like blind road-rage icon Mr. Magoo screaming at a street lamp, calling it“road hog,” as usual.
It stirred up debate about it, highlighted how ridiculous the concept is, and that’s all that matters.
A professional pandering dingbat columnist named Rex Huppke sneered in the formerly centrist, resolutely lowbrow-and-proud USA Today:
In the latest episode of “Wealthy White Dudes Get Their Tender Feelings Hurt By An Adjective” self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist Elon Musk has decided the word “cisgender” is a slur.
The owner of one of the largest social media megaphones on the planet issued the following edict via tweet this week: "The words 'cis' or 'cisgender' are considered slurs on this platform."
It's a transparent dig at the transgender community – if you treat 'cisgender' as negative, you’re implying that 'transgender' or other words that express gender identity are also bad.
The hipster-level irony is the fact that Huppke — and many, many other gender-queer enablers allies online — writing that proves Musk is right. Huppke sounds like an overly enthusiastic freshman at a community college rolling on E who’s just read Marx for the first time in his mandatory Intro to Critical Theory course.
His bio validates my sense of his douchebaggery: He’s also a White middle-aged heterosexual. Give the man a wedgie.
The incident got me thinking about the lead image, how it was taken seven years ago, when my then-romantic-entanglement Chris and I were already fed up with this cis nonsense. A friend of his made that jacket at his request. We predicted the whole gender-queer nonsense was on its way out.
“Bet it’s over in 18 months,” I said.
“I think less than that.” Chris had also just predicted that Trump would win the election, the moment Trump announced — he was so clearly out of his mind and unable to construct the future properly that I didn’t argue.
Five years later, William Shatner spoke up about his rejection of cis, earning a tut-tut from every gay’s default auntie, his former fellow cast member on Star Trek, George Takei. I published a piece on my blog supporting Shatner; I’ve never looked at the stats for it, but I’ll bet it was ignored. I’m forever Mr. Magoo — sigh.
I was going to publish another piece today for your weekend-reading pleasure, but I’ll repost that piece instead:
DISSING MISTER AND MISSUS CIS
Straight People! Listen to Captain Kirk when he threw around his 89-year-old virility on Twitter a couple of months ago, railing against the terms 'cis' and 'cisgendered.’ That is if you had any clue what it was to begin with. If you do, resist. Go ahead and call yourselves 'man', 'woman' or 'normal.’ That is what you are. Forever. And thank you for having children, ruining your lives to raise them, while we same-sex-sexers live like teens until not even Viagra works. You are propagating the species. That's the only purpose to life there is.
All we ask is that you no longer condemn us, or give us cause to feel shame, that families accept our young and not disown them, until we eventually get to the point where we're fully integrated into humankind as the natural occurrence we are, and nobody ever mentions it. That is unlikely until there is an atheist majority in Western society that can regulate religious influence in government and social systems. But evolve we must, a secondary only purpose to life — yeah, well, there might be a few.
Only Black Americans can pull back the excesses of the antiracism movement. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will admit she's really White any year now and will stop trying to make “people of color” happen. Similarly, only legit LGBTs can tackle the genderists that have polluted vast swaths of our small world, the loudest of whom are dizzy af, their minds as superficially garish and busy as a Japanese variety show, unless they're in a mind-erasing K-hole falling from the deck of an Atlantis gay cruise off Cancún.
They're kids, completely under RuPaul's spell, acting out like Queer Eyes wearing gayface on Modern Family. By the way, I've never met a "homonormative," parenting gay couple anywhere near as swish as those two. They are "cisgendered" like Mayor Pete and Chasten, to a man and woman, as the majority of us are, especially after we perish from Gay Death at 30 and grow up.
French writer Simon de Beauvoir's facile opinion that "one is not born, rather one becomes, a woman" kicked off the genderist movement by implying that one's sex is really gender, a collection of learned behaviors, thoughts and assumptions, not a defined thing determined by inherent in our sex. The phrase makes no sense to begin with: One is born a baby girl, then one becomes a woman. It's also confusing culture with gender. Without expanding on this more than necessary — it's sad it has to be debunked in the first place, but Trump may get a second term if it isn't, constantly — it creates the fictitious construct that one's sex is "nonbinary" (why does the WordPress spellcheck know that's a word?), that there are as many genders as moods, or shoes in one’s closet or flavors of Baskin Robbins.
We can observe nonbinary biological systems throughout nature, especially in animals. Like all woke constructs, gender-queerism cannot be proved by scientific method. It just seems plausible to young, impressionable college minds that are putting the finishing touches on their personal identities.
Most of those touches won't last, but they will if you dupe yourself into believing you're 'transgender' and mutilate your body. It's gotten to the point where they are teaching the genderist Gospel According to St. de Beauvoir to eight-year-old boys.
LGBT people — who are likewise born this way; we did not become it, are you crazy? — are being blamed by association. We've been hijacked by this pernicious new religion exactly the way Trump hijacked the GOP. They can't get rid of him any more than we can get rid of gender-queerism; most LGBT people believe it's a real thing just like MAGAs believe everything Trump says.
This is because the louder, more extroverted members of our tribe believe that what gender theorists call 'performativities' are natural, innate, not the exact adoptive behaviors that genderists say that both our sexes really are. Feeling a little upside down? That’s okay: nonbinaryism is a pretzel, a stale, tasteless one. Put it down; don't buy it — you’ll break your teeth.
Like all genderqueer beliefs — represented by the + and the salad of alphabet poop tacked onto 'LGBT' like a parasitic pilot fish to a shark — Pride culture is strictly performance, nothing more. It doesn't represent us the way their loud asses gyrating in tangerine thongs on an Absolut float want you to believe. Enjoy it, don't enjoy it, don't even watch it. Just rest assured it's make-believe, Broadway, Las Vegas, the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
And the colored girls go "Doo do doo do doo do do doo..."
You don't have to accept gender-queerism. You don't have to give it civil rights. Nothing called "gender-queer" should be given a second thought, ever, unless you find a strange 70s sweater at a rummage sale and can't decide whether it's cool or dreadful, for men or women. You'd ask a friend, "What do you think of this? Too gender-queer?" The answer will likely be something like, "Um, I don't know. Hard to tell. It's confusing. How much is it?" Trust me, skip this quirky show and click on another the algorithm recommends.
You do not have to change your pronoun usage to "respect" your Lottie's new identity — sorry, I mean, Charly. (Takes a while!) She only decided to be they/their/them while she was watching her idol, Axel, née Alexandra — oops, I mean né — being tattooed for the first time since ze had zer breasts amputated, with an abstract postmodernist doodle-splash representing the endless possibilities of multi-binary bikini-string theory. So random, so cool.
Charly will come around once the shock of disappointment wears off, a couple of hours after she sees Alexandra posting on IG from her AirBnB in Bangkok, her restored tits in traction following retransition surgery, a naked scruffy backpacker in the bed behind her, so clearly no longer a militant trans-lesbian, either.*
Shoot your heroes, Lottie. I did.
Remember to blame the French for all this. All of it, even almost losing the election. What were simply mind games among French intellectuals have been mistaken as reality by bored, anger-prone American circumstantial narcissists and turned into a religion, like everything we touch, even addiction. Now every Buttigieg-hating church mama in South Carolina can fan herself using postmodernist terms like "White privilege," as if she studied at the Sorbonne under Lyotard.
As a freethinking American academic commented recently regarding French outrage over our Woke nonsense, Le Wokeisme, infecting their society as well, "The chickens have come home to roost."
That's les poulets t'ont fouté la gueule** in French. Trust me.
* This does seem harsh on rereading, but as of this reposting there are 48,200 members of the detransition/desisting subreddit r/detrans. I was not aware that existed in 2021. It’s a scandal that remains unreported in the mainstream media, especially by straight LGBT enablers allies like Rex Huppke.
** Literally: “The chickens fucked your face.” Figuratively: “The chickens made you a laughing stock.”