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supersuckers�
Oct 2, 2014, 6:48:28 PM10/2/14
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NEOLOGISMS THAT MAKE ROB WANT TO PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE
FALL 2014 EDITION
I didn't get to be my wizened, crotchety old age so that I'd have to
be learning new shit. Occasionally, strange and baffling new words
appear unbidden in my brainspace. I didn't ask for them, but they're
there, like unwanted packages pushed surrepetitiously through my
mailslot. I respond to these words the way I respond to all things I
don't understand: with violence.
1) "Cisgender".
Hey, have you ever noticed how the language of political
correctness- ostensibly a force for togetherness and acceptance- is
intrinsically divisive and exclusionary? The constant minting of
neologisms is designed to create an us-versus-them mentality between
those who are invested enough in the cause to dutifully modify their
vocabulary as an implicit pledge-of-alliegance, and those irresolute
enough to find other things to worry about; it's designed to separate
the fuddy-duddys who still talk about "black liberation" and "gay
rights" from the vanguard who have since put new stars on their bellies.
It is this kind of compulsive politically-correct faddishness that gives
us lexicographic grotesqueries like "cisgender".
No, I don't know what "cisgender" means, and I don't care to know,
because the word itself makes me feel like committing a hate crime. It
sounds stupid, and it looks stupid. What's more, I'm absolutely certain
I'll never *need* to know it means. I don't care if "cisgender" refers
to guys who tuck their dicks between their legs like Buffalo Bill, I'll
leave it to the kids who are putting themselves in lifelong hock
majoring in Gender Studies to strain to find the fascination in any of
this. As for myself, it all bores me to tears, and I have full trust and
confidence that our half-millennium old Modern English language is more
than capable, as-is, of accomodating any new developments in that
ever-rapidly-changing world of ding-dongs and hoo-has and the kinds of
things people want to do with them.
Yes, I realize a simple Google search could tell me in a matter of
seconds what 'cisgender' means, but I refuse to Google it on principle,
since I am ethically opposed to ad hoc prefixes, the letter combination
'sg', and words that sound like Poser 3D filenames.
2) "Mansplaining"
The best neologisms are diaphonously self-explanatory and have an
air of inevitability to them. Nobody ever had to be told what a "selfie"
is, but I'm not sure any amount of explanation could tell me what
"mansplaining" is. It isn't even superficially funny or clever. Hey,
dumb neologism-coiner, mansplain *this*! <punches in face>
3) "Appropriation"
Yes, I realize this is a perfectly cromulent word with a long and
storied history. Hell, I myself have used it on many occasions. It is,
however, a new word for stupid people, who have put a new slant on it,
which is why I'm counting it as a neologism. Cultural appropriation is,
properly speaking, the taking of one form of cultural expression and
recontextualizing it in another form of cultural expression: it could be
putting rap into reggae music, or putting rap into country songs. Iggy
Azalea isn't "appropriating" anything. She's a rapper putting rap into
rap songs. Oh wait, is it because she's� AUSTRALIAN???!!??11/1??
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FALL 2014 EDITION
I didn't get to be my wizened, crotchety old age so that I'd have to
be learning new shit. Occasionally, strange and baffling new words
appear unbidden in my brainspace. I didn't ask for them, but they're
there, like unwanted packages pushed surrepetitiously through my
mailslot. I respond to these words the way I respond to all things I
don't understand: with violence.
1) "Cisgender".
Hey, have you ever noticed how the language of political
correctness- ostensibly a force for togetherness and acceptance- is
intrinsically divisive and exclusionary? The constant minting of
neologisms is designed to create an us-versus-them mentality between
those who are invested enough in the cause to dutifully modify their
vocabulary as an implicit pledge-of-alliegance, and those irresolute
enough to find other things to worry about; it's designed to separate
the fuddy-duddys who still talk about "black liberation" and "gay
rights" from the vanguard who have since put new stars on their bellies.
It is this kind of compulsive politically-correct faddishness that gives
us lexicographic grotesqueries like "cisgender".
No, I don't know what "cisgender" means, and I don't care to know,
because the word itself makes me feel like committing a hate crime. It
sounds stupid, and it looks stupid. What's more, I'm absolutely certain
I'll never *need* to know it means. I don't care if "cisgender" refers
to guys who tuck their dicks between their legs like Buffalo Bill, I'll
leave it to the kids who are putting themselves in lifelong hock
majoring in Gender Studies to strain to find the fascination in any of
this. As for myself, it all bores me to tears, and I have full trust and
confidence that our half-millennium old Modern English language is more
than capable, as-is, of accomodating any new developments in that
ever-rapidly-changing world of ding-dongs and hoo-has and the kinds of
things people want to do with them.
Yes, I realize a simple Google search could tell me in a matter of
seconds what 'cisgender' means, but I refuse to Google it on principle,
since I am ethically opposed to ad hoc prefixes, the letter combination
'sg', and words that sound like Poser 3D filenames.
2) "Mansplaining"
The best neologisms are diaphonously self-explanatory and have an
air of inevitability to them. Nobody ever had to be told what a "selfie"
is, but I'm not sure any amount of explanation could tell me what
"mansplaining" is. It isn't even superficially funny or clever. Hey,
dumb neologism-coiner, mansplain *this*! <punches in face>
3) "Appropriation"
Yes, I realize this is a perfectly cromulent word with a long and
storied history. Hell, I myself have used it on many occasions. It is,
however, a new word for stupid people, who have put a new slant on it,
which is why I'm counting it as a neologism. Cultural appropriation is,
properly speaking, the taking of one form of cultural expression and
recontextualizing it in another form of cultural expression: it could be
putting rap into reggae music, or putting rap into country songs. Iggy
Azalea isn't "appropriating" anything. She's a rapper putting rap into
rap songs. Oh wait, is it because she's� AUSTRALIAN???!!??11/1??
--
�����http://rcaponi.tumblr.com/
�����http://www.facebook.com/robert.caponi
David DeLaney
Oct 4, 2014, 11:35:25 PM10/4/14
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On 2014-10-02, supersuckers?? <tagu...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> NEOLOGISMS THAT MAKE ROB WANT TO PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE
> FALL 2014 EDITION
>
> I didn't get to be my wizened, crotchety old age so that I'd have to
> be learning new shit. Occasionally, strange and baffling new words
> appear unbidden in my brainspace. I didn't ask for them, but they're
> there, like unwanted packages pushed surrepetitiously through my
> mailslot. I respond to these words the way I respond to all things I
> don't understand: with violence.
>
> 1) "Cisgender".
>
> Hey, have you ever noticed how the language of political
> correctness-
Aaaaand right here is where you derail yourself. Since it's ALWAYS possible to
> NEOLOGISMS THAT MAKE ROB WANT TO PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE
> FALL 2014 EDITION
>
> I didn't get to be my wizened, crotchety old age so that I'd have to
> be learning new shit. Occasionally, strange and baffling new words
> appear unbidden in my brainspace. I didn't ask for them, but they're
> there, like unwanted packages pushed surrepetitiously through my
> mailslot. I respond to these words the way I respond to all things I
> don't understand: with violence.
>
> 1) "Cisgender".
>
> Hey, have you ever noticed how the language of political
> correctness-
replace "political correctness" with its exact translation, "being respectful
to people even if they are not exactly like you".
> No, I don't know what "cisgender" means, and I don't care to know,
sex. (Or at least as A gender that does, cuz gender is a lot more fluid than
a lot of straight white older guys know, and I get the distinct feeling that
you're a straight white young guy trying for some reason to get yourself
accepted as having a straight white regressive older guy's worldview as fast
as you possibly can. DO feel free to post in a way that doesn't confirm this.)
tl;dr: with a rant like that, you are almost certainly not only cisgender, but
likely to get into SEVERE trouble whenever you finally realize some of the
guys or gals you know are NOT.
> 2) "Mansplaining"
>
> The best neologisms are diaphonously self-explanatory and have an
> air of inevitability to them. Nobody ever had to be told what a "selfie"
> is, but I'm not sure any amount of explanation could tell me what
> "mansplaining" is. It isn't even superficially funny or clever. Hey,
> dumb neologism-coiner, mansplain *this*! <punches in face>
Dave, Adam, can we sic Peter on this guy? I think he deserves him
--
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Peter Duncanson
Oct 5, 2014, 9:10:11 AM10/5/14
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On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:48:27 -0400, supersuckers?
<tagu...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>EOLOGISMS THAT MAKE ROB WANT TO PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE
>FALL 2014 EDITION
>
> I didn't get to be my wizened, crotchety old age so that I'd have to
>be learning new shit. Occasionally, strange and baffling new words
>appear unbidden in my brainspace. I didn't ask for them, but they're
>there, like unwanted packages pushed surrepetitiously through my
>mailslot. I respond to these words the way I respond to all things I
>don't understand: with violence.
>
>1) "Cisgender".
>
> Hey, have you ever noticed how the language of political
>correctness- ostensibly a force for togetherness and acceptance- is
>intrinsically divisive and exclusionary? The constant minting of
>neologisms is designed to create an us-versus-them mentality between
>those who are invested enough in the cause to dutifully modify their
>vocabulary as an implicit pledge-of-alliegance, and those irresolute
>enough to find other things to worry about; it's designed to separate
>the fuddy-duddys who still talk about "black liberation" and "gay
>rights" from the vanguard who have since put new stars on their bellies.
>It is this kind of compulsive politically-correct faddishness that gives
>us lexicographic grotesqueries like "cisgender".
There is nothing lexicographically grotesque about "cisgender". At least
<tagu...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>EOLOGISMS THAT MAKE ROB WANT TO PUNCH PEOPLE IN THE FACE
>FALL 2014 EDITION
>
> I didn't get to be my wizened, crotchety old age so that I'd have to
>be learning new shit. Occasionally, strange and baffling new words
>appear unbidden in my brainspace. I didn't ask for them, but they're
>there, like unwanted packages pushed surrepetitiously through my
>mailslot. I respond to these words the way I respond to all things I
>don't understand: with violence.
>
>1) "Cisgender".
>
> Hey, have you ever noticed how the language of political
>correctness- ostensibly a force for togetherness and acceptance- is
>intrinsically divisive and exclusionary? The constant minting of
>neologisms is designed to create an us-versus-them mentality between
>those who are invested enough in the cause to dutifully modify their
>vocabulary as an implicit pledge-of-alliegance, and those irresolute
>enough to find other things to worry about; it's designed to separate
>the fuddy-duddys who still talk about "black liberation" and "gay
>rights" from the vanguard who have since put new stars on their bellies.
>It is this kind of compulsive politically-correct faddishness that gives
>us lexicographic grotesqueries like "cisgender".
no more grotesque than the recent word "transgender".
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the earliest use in writing of
"transgender" as 1974.
1974 D. Cordell in Rep. First National TV.TS Conf. 16 There is a
tendency among trans-gender people to encourage each other. This
precludes the very careful self-analysis which must take place in
everyone who is proposing to undergo this therapy.
The prefix "cis" is the opposite of the prefix "trans". They both come
from Latin.
"Cis" means "on this side of".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cis-
"Trans" means "on the other side of" or "across".
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/trans-
Peter D.
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
Adam Funk
Oct 6, 2014, 5:00:52 PM10/6/14
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On 2014-10-05, Peter Duncanson wrote:
> There is nothing lexicographically grotesque about "cisgender". At least
> no more grotesque than the recent word "transgender".
We don't need no stinkin OED to justify the contrast, just Gallia
> There is nothing lexicographically grotesque about "cisgender". At least
> no more grotesque than the recent word "transgender".
cis/trans-alpina!
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myth of the infallible electronic brain. (Verity Stob)
supersuckers(TM)
Oct 10, 2014, 12:48:32 AM10/10/14
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In article <d7qdnWZ8-ZPhIa3J...@earthlink.com>,
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." Of course,
there's a whole lot of ideological freight that goes with feminism
besides just thinking women are people, and there's a whole lot more to
political correctness than just being respectful to people even if they
of these terms has to do with the exclusionary nature of slang terms in
general. Their use implicitly separates those in-the-know from those
not-in-the-know-- in this case, the PC vanguardists from the weekenders.
The fact that the slang in question is a taxonomic term is incidental;
the exclusion is done by the taxonomizers rather than the taxonomized.
> > No, I don't know what "cisgender" means, and I don't care to know,
>
> Too bad. It means you present yourself as the gender that matches your bodily
> sex. (Or at least as A gender that does, cuz gender is a lot more fluid than
> a lot of straight white older guys know, and I get the distinct feeling that
> you're a straight white young guy trying for some reason to get yourself
> accepted as having a straight white regressive older guy's worldview as fast
> as you possibly can. DO feel free to post in a way that doesn't confirm this.)
*Gasp*! David, it your old pal Tagutcow. Tagut. Taggy-Poo.
<waves hand in front of face>
Don't you... recognize me?
Robert "My Deja News corpus disconfirms your hypothesis" Caponi
David DeLaney <davidd...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2014-10-02, supersuckers?? <tagu...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hey, have you ever noticed how the language of political
> > correctness-
>
> Aaaaand right here is where you derail yourself. Since it's ALWAYS possible to
> replace "political correctness" with its exact translation, "being respectful
> to people even if they are not exactly like you".
Sounds like one of those it-would-be-pretty-to-think-so apercus like
> On 2014-10-02, supersuckers?? <tagu...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hey, have you ever noticed how the language of political
> > correctness-
>
> Aaaaand right here is where you derail yourself. Since it's ALWAYS possible to
> replace "political correctness" with its exact translation, "being respectful
> to people even if they are not exactly like you".
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." Of course,
there's a whole lot of ideological freight that goes with feminism
besides just thinking women are people, and there's a whole lot more to
political correctness than just being respectful to people even if they
are not exactly like you.
Nonetheless, the point that people miss is that the exclusionary nature
of these terms has to do with the exclusionary nature of slang terms in
general. Their use implicitly separates those in-the-know from those
not-in-the-know-- in this case, the PC vanguardists from the weekenders.
The fact that the slang in question is a taxonomic term is incidental;
the exclusion is done by the taxonomizers rather than the taxonomized.
> > No, I don't know what "cisgender" means, and I don't care to know,
>
> Too bad. It means you present yourself as the gender that matches your bodily
> sex. (Or at least as A gender that does, cuz gender is a lot more fluid than
> a lot of straight white older guys know, and I get the distinct feeling that
> you're a straight white young guy trying for some reason to get yourself
> accepted as having a straight white regressive older guy's worldview as fast
> as you possibly can. DO feel free to post in a way that doesn't confirm this.)
<waves hand in front of face>
Don't you... recognize me?
Robert "My Deja News corpus disconfirms your hypothesis" Caponi
David DeLaney
Oct 11, 2014, 1:01:16 PM10/11/14
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the right meds? Maybe something is in the water?
Dave, seasons change but so did i, you need not wonder why-y-y
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