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Prof: 'Diverse gender identities' are 'culturally unintelligible'
CampusReform.org ^ | 8/30/2017 | Toni Airaksinen

Posted on 08/30/2017 11:25:01 AM PDT by Maceman

A Northern Illinois University professor recently coined the phrase “compulsory heterogenderism” to describe how “trans* identities” are often rendered “invisible” by the assumptions of "cisgender" people.

Z Nicolazzo argues that "diverse gender identities" are often "culturally unintelligible" because of the tendency to view transgender people through the lens of sexuality rather than gender.

A Northern Illinois University professor recently coined the phrase “compulsory heterogenderism” to describe how “trans* identities” are often “invisible.”

Z Nicolazzo, a transgender professor who goes by ze/hir pronouns, first used the term “compulsory heterogenderism” in an academic article published Friday, defining it as the impulse to view transgender people “through their sexuality” as opposed to gender identity.

According to Nicolazzo, trans people are rarely perceived as transgender, but instead as “dykes” or “masculine” lesbians because of their appearance, which concerns Nicolazzo because it results in trans identities going “unrecognized,” or otherwise being “erased.

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1 posted on 08/30/2017 11:25:01 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Maceman

These people just make up sh*t. We should ignore them.


2 posted on 08/30/2017 11:26:23 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Maceman

From the article:

“To study this issue, Nicolazzo interviewed four transgender students, one of whom, Silvia, spoke of her experiences with “compulsory heterogenderism” during a first date, when she, an “agender” but “feminine” person, took a “masculine lesbian” out for dinner.”

There were problems with door-holding and who the waiter assumed should get the check.

As if there aren’t enough important things to worry about!


3 posted on 08/30/2017 11:28:04 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Maceman

Well, “Ze” is right about one thing: this entire ridiculous flood of intellectual sewage is, indeed, unintelligible.


4 posted on 08/30/2017 11:29:57 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ilovesarah2012

These people just make up sh*t. We should ignore them.


Already am...


5 posted on 08/30/2017 11:30:14 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: Maceman

This dung beetle of language “professor” should be exiled to the city of Babel. He reached a new low in nitwittery with his confused claptrap.


6 posted on 08/30/2017 11:30:29 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Maceman

First World Decadence


7 posted on 08/30/2017 11:31:23 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Your Free Speech is Violence. My Violence is Free Speech.)
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To: Maceman

I read these articles and I feel like there’s a completely invisible world I’m missing.

I’m pretty OK with that.


8 posted on 08/30/2017 11:31:55 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: Maceman

Satire will never recover from this time period.


9 posted on 08/30/2017 11:32:11 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Maceman

With queers, it’s “all about sex.” In fact, that’s all they ever worr about. They are unable to control their sexual drives. They ar elike my dog when he’s in heat - he’ll hump any leg that comes along.


10 posted on 08/30/2017 11:32:49 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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I guess Ze is actually a girl, but I looked up its picture, and I honestly cannot tell. Usually you can tell, but this time . . .


11 posted on 08/30/2017 11:33:47 AM PDT by madprof98
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"Cisgender"...."trans"...Bullbleep!

"X" + "Y" = boy

"X" + "X" = girl

It ain't rocket science...bit it *is* science.

12 posted on 08/30/2017 11:34:32 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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You must report to the principal’s office for misgendering.


13 posted on 08/30/2017 11:35:50 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: ilovesarah2012

I like the phrase. How about this one - “Sociological Vandalism.”


14 posted on 08/30/2017 11:36:29 AM PDT by jimfree (My17 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: Maceman
According to Nicolazzo, trans people are rarely perceived as transgender, but instead as “dykes” or “masculine” lesbians because of their appearance...

Look at "Chaz" Bono and you see the same kind of wispy little beard that one often sees on older Greek and Italian women.

15 posted on 08/30/2017 11:36:41 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Maceman

Also its just sickening how reality-centric people regard trans-historic people as being simply crazy. Who are we to say that the person next to us is not really Napoleon?


16 posted on 08/30/2017 11:37:20 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Pearls Before Swine
I am so confused! 😨
17 posted on 08/30/2017 11:38:50 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Pearls Before Swine
“To study this issue, Nicolazzo interviewed four transgender students, one of whom, Silvia, spoke of her experiences with “compulsory heterogenderism” during a first date, when she, an “agender” but “feminine” person, took a “masculine lesbian” out for dinner.”

This was all forseen by my favorite poet, Samuel Hoffenstein, back in the 1920s. He wrote:

"Lives there a man with hide so tough

Who thinks two sexes aren't enough?"

18 posted on 08/30/2017 11:39:20 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“agender”

Describes the left to a tee.


19 posted on 08/30/2017 11:40:40 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: madprof98
I guess Ze is actually a girl, but I looked up its picture, and I honestly cannot tell. Usually you can tell, but this time . . .

Yikes!


20 posted on 08/30/2017 11:45:22 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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