People are wrong constantly about which career they’re best suited for but there isn’t a huge controversy about letting people choose that for themselves
People can be wrong about literally anything. That is not an excuse to say “fuck everyone else in this group.”
If you extend this argument, we shouldn’t believe what anyone tells us about absolutely anything because they might have made a mistake. Truly a great basis for human society.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
definitely_AI@feddit.online 2 months ago
Why would you presume that questioning someone’s beliefs would mandate to treat them like shit? What a bizarre worldview. Everyone deserves to be treated with kindness and respect, whatever they believe.
But your beliefs about the world do not dictate my beliefs about the world. That is surely not a hard concept to grasp?
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because there’s an explicit bias in your questioning. You wouldn’t question if I’m really cis-hetero, but you would question of I’m reeeeeeeeally gay or trans, even thought I’m sure there are more people who come up publicly as gay after having children than there are trans detransitioning.
This is the same as the maga mentality, where any man in a position of responsibility is accepted by default, but for women they demand justification for the role.
definitely_AI@feddit.online 2 months ago
Isn’t there an explicit bias in your statement?
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, that’s a way to go from having a bias to just plain bigotry.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Are you aware that the majority can be cis and heterosexual and also accept trans people and gay people?
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cis is a prefix, not an abbreviation. It is the opposite of trans. In this context it’s obviously referencing cisgender va transgender.
Cis means “this side,” trans means “the reverse side.” You see them used in chemistry, for example cis/trans-isomerism. Even Julius Caesar’s writings reference cisalpine Gaul and transalpine Gaul (the part of Gaul on this side of the Alps vs the part on the other side of the Alps)
Hope that helps you “keep up” with the English language.