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53. All words are made up. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Tue Dec 29, 2020, 12:01 AM

Dec 2020

Actually, for some reason I’ve become fascinated lately with how remarkably smart we humans are to be able to communicate an ever growing, complex series of concepts by blowing air and manipulating our larynx, tongue, mouth, nasal passages, and probably a few other things I haven’t thought of.

As to transmasculine, seems fairly elegant.

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Just learned a new term I've never heard of before, anywhere. [View all] Archae Dec 2020 OP

i learned 'transpecies' the other day!..life is getting way too complicated... samnsara Dec 2020 #1

Where do I apply? Hugin Dec 2020 #5

There seems to be an obsession PatSeg Dec 2020 #36

It's another word for being furry I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2020 #41

I don't think it is crazy PatSeg Dec 2020 #55

The tag is for self identification I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2020 #42

The problem with labels PatSeg Dec 2020 #54

I know I am far more complex than any label..The labels are kind of a shorthand way of putting I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2020 #66

Is that from the South Park episode where Kyle's dad gets changed into a dolphin? Towlie Dec 2020 #45

Who are we to question those for whom this term applies? Cirque du So-What Dec 2020 #2

I can't keep up. Be whatever you are, let me know when you meet me and we'll go with that. Squinch Dec 2020 #3

Agreed. Miigwech Dec 2020 #7

Why does it bother you so much? RandiFan1290 Dec 2020 #4

It doesn't, I just never heard of it before. Archae Dec 2020 #6

From the article, couple for you.. irisblue Dec 2020 #11

Post removed Post removed Dec 2020 #13

2014 academic citation and abstract irisblue Dec 2020 #15

I'll be darned, it has been used before. Archae Dec 2020 #17

you wrote "Who the heck made this term up?" Voltaire2 Dec 2020 #30

As long as people like my nephew use it to describe their gender identity I doubt Autumn Dec 2020 #40

While, I had not heard the term before, it makes a kind of sense. Eugene Dec 2020 #8

Agreed sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #37

"Who the heck made this term up?" Probably someone who needed it. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #9

Dictionary.com has a definition. After a short search found a 2014 citation and abstract irisblue Dec 2020 #12

Yes, I know what it means. It's good to have words that describe what people know about themselves. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #14

I know you got it, but I thought it should be in this thread irisblue Dec 2020 #16

Fair enough! WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2020 #25

Only issue is, unlike "transwomen", "transmasculine" is an adjective, not whathehell Dec 2020 #56

Transfeminine as a word also exists. irisblue Dec 2020 #57

I never said either of them weren't "words".. whathehell Dec 2020 #59

Truly then, I am not understanding your post to me irisblue Dec 2020 #60

Okay whathehell Dec 2020 #62

I have a grandchild who is transsexual, born a biological male but identifying as female. CTyankee Dec 2020 #10

It has always been my thought MuseRider Dec 2020 #18

I do like when words allow expansion of consider_this Dec 2020 #19

Ms has been in use for decades for women csziggy Dec 2020 #21

your efforts underscore my point consider_this Dec 2020 #22

Most online forms have various forms of address csziggy Dec 2020 #27

I prefer no title Kali Dec 2020 #44

I use MS for online forms but not in daily life csziggy Dec 2020 #46

oh yeah that whole head-of-household BS Kali Dec 2020 #47

Same here, but the advice we got it was not worth arguing with the IRS csziggy Dec 2020 #48

oh yeah we get that all the time Kali Dec 2020 #49

I'm surprised you haven't heard it before fishwax Dec 2020 #20

Oooo, right up there with Latinx Drahthaardogs Dec 2020 #23

I never heard of that one either. Archae Dec 2020 #24

Non-gendered term that replaces Latino/Latina nt sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #26

this op and many comments are just screaming 'boomer fail'. Voltaire2 Dec 2020 #31

As a speaker of Italian, which also has masculine and feminine Drahthaardogs Dec 2020 #33

Despised by most latino people I know. Squinch Dec 2020 #38

It is divisive sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #39

I live in Arizona JonLP24 Dec 2020 #43

+1 Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2020 #52

Being older, I don't see the advantage of it. Maybe I'll just have some tequilx, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2020 #61

Lolz Drahthaardogs Dec 2020 #65

I can't figure that one out..LOL LeftInTX Dec 2020 #63

It's stupid Drahthaardogs Dec 2020 #64

People it describes. Ms. Toad Dec 2020 #28

probably people who were born female and transitioned to male? Voltaire2 Dec 2020 #29

We should care what terminology transpeople use sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #32

oh sure, I meant why the upset? Voltaire2 Dec 2020 #34

Fair enough nt sweetloukillbot Dec 2020 #35

Language is fluid mucifer Dec 2020 #50

Why can't people just be people. Growing up in Roxbury MA, we never identified a person marie999 Dec 2020 #51

All words are made up. 🤷🏼‍♀️ nolabear Dec 2020 #53

"Pan-sexual" from Schitt Creek. kentuck Dec 2020 #58