"people identify as nonbinary or trans as an attempt to escape the social shame heaped upon cishet people in very liberal circles" would be a much less convincing argument if nobody used cishet with negative connotations in very liberal circles
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Cishet people are sometimes defined as "agents". The folks leading this workshop said that agents are oppressors.
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the obliquity of this argument is itself evidence of the thought policing of these topics
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IMO it's more tilted towards carrots than sticks. Being str8 is boring, not demeaning.
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Yeah unfortunately there are *some* communities that do a lot of purity testing based on your identities. That kinda thing sucks no matter who's doing it.
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it takes a large target off your back if you're able to shed some of the perceived privilege off of you.
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More to the point, why should we bother caring about the opinions of anyone who uses “cishet” as an insult
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