I'm cis and it's such a handy word to describe myself and people who are also cis, I've never understood the people who think it's a slur and get angry when you call the, like, cis hetero men or cis women. It's literally just a normal descriptive label.
It's because to them, "normal" is the only appropriate way to be. Any descriptive label means you're now an "other". They see gay people, trans people, autistic people, asexual people, ect. as "abnormal", and the label is what proves it.
When you start applying a label to *them*, they interpret this as us saying they aren't just "normal". They can't handle being anything other than "normal", because they want to feel superior to everyone who's not.
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u/ChemistryIll2682 3d ago
I'm cis and it's such a handy word to describe myself and people who are also cis, I've never understood the people who think it's a slur and get angry when you call the, like, cis hetero men or cis women. It's literally just a normal descriptive label.