There were a lot of other arguments that ultimately spun off that I didn't agree with and won't entertain here, but it is pretty interesting that so many people fell over one another on this single semantic difference.
And I had never really heard it described like that before. I, personally, have always seen gender *identity* and gender *roles* to be separate things. To me, gender and gender identity has always been a personal issue, largely unrelated to the social construct.
It was pretty weird to see statements as seemingly self-contradictory as "I am a woman. I don't identify as a woman." I questioned why they opposed to the term. They said that they rejected gender as a whole, because gender was a socially-enforced construct that oppressed women.
The thing that first got me into it was seeing women who insisted that they are not cisgender. This was... weird to me. To me and probably a lot of other people, cisgender is just the opposite to transgender—just as heterosexual is to homosexual and yin to yang.
Random things I noticed going to work this morning:
* There are recycling bins everywhere! Where are these every other day of the year?
* No traffic noise = I can keep my tunes quieter = better hearing health.
* Traffic seems no worse than usual.
In fact I don't think my step-dad would have met them either. He would now, but only because he got educated and trained in his specific profession in the UK.
dumb dream I just had
It was like one of those short promotional behind the scenes videos with clips interspersed with interviews.
They were making a modern day reboot movie of I.M. Weasel. The segment was about I.R. Baboon’s new backstory as an outcast, shunned by other baboons not for wearing clothes, but for his poor posture—which was described as “fish back.”
I.R. Baboon was voiced by Hank Azaria doing the Moe Syzlack voice.
Also they were rebooting Dexter’s Laboratory but in this one Dee Dee was also a genius with a secret lab; but still had an antagonistic relationship with Dexter because the type of science she did was “girly.”
Friendly neighbourhood robotic bat. Also web developer. Hugs/smooches @may.