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Post by pim on Sept 1, 2018 22:30:27 GMT 10
Today's word is cisgenderI can tell you that the prefix "cis" is as valid as the prefix "trans" which as you would know - or should, unless you're an ignoramus of the Pauline Hanson school - means "across" or "on/to the other side". You may not be aware, because not everyone has studied Latin during their schooling, that "cis" is that Latin opposite of "trans". During the time of ancient Rome what the Romans called Gaul - or "Gallia" - didn't just encompass modern France but also northern Italy. So "Gallia" straddled both sides of the Alps and the Romans distinguished between them. Italian Gaul was "Gaul-on-this-side-of-the-Alps" or "Cisalpine Gaul" - Gallia Cisalpina and French Gaul was "Transalpine Gaul". If "transgender" is considered a valid item in the lexicon then so is "cisgender". Or "cis" for short. Rhymes with "siss" Hi cis!   |
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Post by Yassir Rebob on Sept 1, 2018 22:49:31 GMT 10
I'm with Jordan Peterson on this
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Post by pim on Sept 1, 2018 23:17:34 GMT 10
I think I was too until I started becoming aware of people I've known for some time who are trans. There are more of them than you think - certainly more than I'd ever thought - and they're not always "visible". I'm like you in that I'm a product of my upbringing which is 100% cisgender. And that means I still default to thinking about gender in a binary way: people are either M or F. I'd be lying if I didn't admit to struggling with a looser more multi faceted notion of gender. Hell I don't pretend that these issues are easy or simple. And neither should they be. I struggle with lots of issues regarding life, the universe and everything. I happen to think that questions are often more important than answers and I get suspicious of people who claim to have "answers" and that moral questions are "simple". That’s what populism does.
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Post by Yassir Rebob on Sept 1, 2018 23:44:42 GMT 10
I get that some people struggle with their Identity. Perhaps its a bit like how they think that homosexuality is triggered by a slight hormone imbalance during conception ? However, unfortunately our chromosomes do determine our gender in so far as that Y that we have does make a difference which hormones can never really alter.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 2:44:58 GMT 10
A naive friend asked me after a visit to his GP ....when after having a prostrate check ’is it normal for the doc to go in and out repeatedly with his finger and then put two fingers in and say ....it’s for a 2nd opinion..? ’.....what could I say to this digital date rape....they are fucking every where.
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Post by KTJ on Sept 2, 2018 11:13:52 GMT 10
Bugger the “digital check” of the prostate.
I ask my doctor for a PSA test each year instead.
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Post by pim on Sept 2, 2018 12:18:59 GMT 10
You're not fond of the rectum digitalis probe KTJ? Sphincter muscles involuntarily contract, do they? Tony Abbott definitely would not call you the suppository of all wisdom! Boom boom!  |
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Post by KTJ on Sept 2, 2018 12:39:10 GMT 10
I prefer to not have anything stuck up my bum if I can help it.
Hence my preference for an annual PSA blood test instead.
As I am required to have a comprehensive blood test each year as part of my locomotive engineer's medical, it is no problem to simply have the PSA test added to the list of all the other tests while the needle is in my arm. And doing it that way, KiwiRail end up paying for it too, which is win-win for me. As my GP is also the local railway doctor, that makes it even easier.
Anyway, enough of bum talk … I'm off to the movie theatre to indulging in watching a bit of “tally-ho” history on the big screen in the form of the following documentary…
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Post by Gort on Oct 6, 2022 23:41:58 GMT 10
Word of the day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has all the self-confidence of ignorance.
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Post by Gort on Oct 11, 2022 23:05:30 GMT 10
@susie_dent
Word of the day is another old favourite.
A 'mumpsimus' (16th century) is someone who insists that they are right, despite clear evidence that they are not.
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Post by caskur on Oct 24, 2022 19:06:19 GMT 10
@susie_dent Word of the day is another old favourite. A ' mumpsimus' (16th century) is someone who insists that they are right, despite clear evidence that they are not. very interesting... |
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