The NHL just banned ALL cultural/political practice jerseys over the ongoing LGBT controversies. No "pride" jersey, no military appreciation, not even St Patrick's Day or Chinese New Year! Teams can still make these jerseys, but player's will only wear their regular uniform during warm ups.
Obviously no one watches the NHL outside of Las Vegas and Canada, so it doesn't matter. But I feel like it's a symbolic of a general retreat of this sort of stuff. Maybe it's just been my personal attempts to be less online, but I can't remember the last time I heard the term "cis." I feel like I see much less of all stripes of cultural identity stuff compared to a year or two ago.
Your Cavendish banana analogy is excellent--both persuasive and funny. My own analogy is the guy Elaine dated in one Seinfeld episode who conducts a firemen’s band. He insists that everyone call him “Maestro,” and so every conversation with him begins awkwardly, when people say his name and he gets all huffy and says, “I would really prefer it if you called me Maestro!” We have conventional words for a reason, after all.
Sort of like calling myself a goyim. Might use it if context is needed, but most of the time, it's not. We need to quit pretending 0.7% of the populace is somehow equal to 99.3%.
“Cavendish Banana”??? I’m literally shaking rn
The NHL just banned ALL cultural/political practice jerseys over the ongoing LGBT controversies. No "pride" jersey, no military appreciation, not even St Patrick's Day or Chinese New Year! Teams can still make these jerseys, but player's will only wear their regular uniform during warm ups.
Obviously no one watches the NHL outside of Las Vegas and Canada, so it doesn't matter. But I feel like it's a symbolic of a general retreat of this sort of stuff. Maybe it's just been my personal attempts to be less online, but I can't remember the last time I heard the term "cis." I feel like I see much less of all stripes of cultural identity stuff compared to a year or two ago.
"Cis woman" is the same as "caffeinated coffee", "non-albino person", and "four-legged cat." It's redundant and unnecessary.
Your Cavendish banana analogy is excellent--both persuasive and funny. My own analogy is the guy Elaine dated in one Seinfeld episode who conducts a firemen’s band. He insists that everyone call him “Maestro,” and so every conversation with him begins awkwardly, when people say his name and he gets all huffy and says, “I would really prefer it if you called me Maestro!” We have conventional words for a reason, after all.
Reading this well-done article made me sad.
Are common sense, common courtesy (AKA etiquette), and the English language completely dead in 21st century America?
It appears the answer is “yes”.
Call me cis if you like, but don't insult me by calling me "Sis"... There, that's about right.
Sort of like calling myself a goyim. Might use it if context is needed, but most of the time, it's not. We need to quit pretending 0.7% of the populace is somehow equal to 99.3%.