Re: [Gendergap] Opinion pieces on cisgender...Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-20 Thread A. Mani
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Carol Moore dc carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote: Since I started a minor brouhaha on cisgender, I figured I should provide some examples of women (and feminists) who dislike the phrase. http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/01/being-called-cis-is-not-oppressive Best

Re: [Gendergap] Opinion pieces on cisgender...Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-20 Thread LB
You know what I want? A place where women can come together and talk. I hope they won't get hung up on - or especially belittle each other - if they prefer to say *about themselves* I am a woman, or I am a cisgender woman, or I am a woman-born-woman, or I am a trans-woman, or whatever. And I sure

Re: [Gendergap] Opinion pieces on cisgender...Test Kaffeeklatsch area for women-only

2015-01-17 Thread Carol Moore dc
Since I started a minor brouhaha on cisgender, I figured I should provide some examples of women (and feminists) who dislike the phrase. Frankly, I never have gotten a handle on what gender means and never use the phrase gender at all except in gender gap, only because sex gap obviously is