- Oct 17, 2008
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Who are you to decide that? The entire point of multiple genders is for inclusion for everybody. If you want to identify as just a “man” that is your unalienable right according to those who agree with multiple gendering. If I want to be a man, and not a cis-man, I will be. What you’re essentially saying is unless I agree with the current vogue I am not entitled to contribute.i had a similar conversation with someone who didnt want to recognise the term Heterosexual- he wanted to be a straight man, not a heterosexual one .I think there was a poll that had homosexual man, bi man, heterosexual man.
If someobne doesnt want to identify with a medivcally and scientifically accepted term thats fine, however when being asked a specific question about the very thing that that term expressly identifies,not using it makes the answer meaningless, anyone on that poll who now identifies as man, would be correct to answer man, but it invalidates the entire poll. if you dont want to participate fine, dont, but whether the poster likes it or not, given that the question is directly relating to the gender a person identifies with NOW, the term CIS Man answers the question, Man does not