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“I say we _can_ use 'dude' to refer to non-males -- I don't care that it's often an anti-trans slur." - literally does not affect you (1/9)
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as a cisgender person because it has never been used to marginalize you or threaten your identity. You deciding to ignore the social (2/9)
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@bfeliciano
@DiracsDeltas
weight and associated stigma isn’t honorable or progressive, it just shows disregard for the actual struggle at hand. "No no, when *I* (3/9)
@CrashingConcord
@bfeliciano
@DiracsDeltas
use a historically oppressive term to refer to you, I'm not doing it in an oppressive way." That doesn't make any sense, it's not (4/9)
@CrashingConcord
@bfeliciano
@DiracsDeltas
Like, cool, I guess you’re super woke for using oppressive language and it’s inexplicably not marginalizing when you say it? (6/9)
@CrashingConcord
@bfeliciano
@DiracsDeltas
RE: Cis- privilege @crashingconcord we have the obligation to listen and be temperate about these conversations, not jackhammer (7/9)
@CrashingConcord
@bfeliciano
@DiracsDeltas
our personal views about language into a trans dialogue. You can feel however you want about this, but it’s more important for you (8/9)
@CrashingConcord
@bfeliciano
@DiracsDeltas
to listen than to act. Twitter is not the format for this conversation. I’m happy to field the rest of this conversation privately. (9/9)