{"id":6341,"date":"2015-08-23T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:38:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:38:56","slug":"after-a-while-the-insanity-gets-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2015\/08\/23\/after-a-while-the-insanity-gets-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"After a while the insanity gets to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"CisforCisgender.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CisforCisgender.png\" alt=\"CisforCisgender\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Urban Dictionary defines Cisgender;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201can adjective for someone whose gender corresponds to their assigned sex.&#8221; \u00a0As in &#8220;<em>I am perfectly comfortable identifying as the gender my parents put on my birth certificate. I am cisgender.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, I\u2019m good with that until other definitions of the word pop up and appear to have different meanings.<\/p>\n<p>So is this a term that simply exists to allow transgendered, or transexuals a word to insult, demean, or shame, all the rest of us? Why the hell should I even have to think about this?<\/p>\n<p>I must have missed the memo stating that I was either supposed to become a really ugly woman, or I was supposed to live my life apologizing for being normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Or white, Or male, or American, or from the South, or, or, or or\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-09 at 2.04.44 PM.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-09-at-2.04.44-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015 08 09 at 2 04 44 PM\" width=\"298\" height=\"188\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m confused as hell as to why we have to create special terms that mean the same things as terms that are already extant and well understood.<\/p>\n<p>However, since we\u2019re about creating new terms, I\u2019ve decided to add mine to the melee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>CockNormal<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The condition of being male in gender and thinking, happy and proud of being male, pleased that one\u2019s genitalia consists of a cock and balls, a shameless man-spreader. Of, or defining a man independent of the gender chosen with which to share their dick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-09 at 2.04.29 PM.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-09-at-2.04.29-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015 08 09 at 2 04 29 PM\" width=\"299\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This burbled to the top of my brain because a friend sent me an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/news\/stonewall-over-20000-people-sign-petition-to-boycott-whitewashed-gay-rights-movie-10447108.html\">article describing gay folks<\/a> who are calling for a boycott of the new movie \u201cStonewall\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>What got me was this<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe petition argues that white cisgender gay man Danny (Jeremy Irvine) is presented as the hero while other transgender and ethnic minority cast members appear secondary, despite being a crucial part of Stonewall&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What the hell is a <em>gisgender gay white man<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, yes I know what it is. But do we need to apply such a specific label?<\/p>\n<p>How about \u201cGay white guy\u201d How about \u201cPissed off Gay Dude\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone except transgendered people give a flying fuck about the guys gender identity?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a thought, YOUR gender confusion or angst is not MY problem. Furthermore I don\u2019t need to have your terminology forced down my throat.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the \u201cgood old days,\u201d you know, when folks who had sex with their own gender were queer and everyone else wasn\u2019t. <em>(It should be noted, I don\u2019t miss the days when people who had sex with their own gender were in asylums being subjected to \u201ctreatments\u201d that would have given Josef Mengele the \u2018willies\u2019.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nowdays, I feel like I need a computer just to keep the terms straight\u2026 Can I use that term like that, or is that use demonizing someone?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban Dictionary defines Cisgender; \u201can adjective for someone whose gender corresponds to their assigned sex.&#8221; \u00a0As in &#8220;I am perfectly comfortable identifying as the gender my parents put on my birth certificate. I am cisgender.\u201d Okay, I\u2019m good with that until other definitions of the word pop up and appear to have different meanings. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2015\/08\/23\/after-a-while-the-insanity-gets-to-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;After a while the insanity gets to me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,21,161,66],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-obscenities","category-gay-straight","category-sjw","category-wtf","tag-male"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6923,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions\/6923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}