Article by Pink News: In a Twitter conversation, site owner Elon Musk attempts to reframe “cis” as a slur, deliberately making the site even more overtly hostile to trans and LGBT+ folks
Article by Pink News: In a Twitter conversation, site owner Elon Musk attempts to reframe “cis” as a slur, deliberately making the site even more overtly hostile to trans and LGBT+ folks
Cis definitely isn’t a slur, but repeatedly DMing people and calling them “cissy” and saying “you can’t change who you are” or whatever is 100% harassment.
I get that it’s supposed to be a mirror of people’s treatment of trans people, and that makes sense, but then being upset that it’s called harassment seems silly when that’s exactly what it is. Not to say that it’s comparable to transphobia or any other type of more serious harassment though, because it’s really not.
Elon Musk sucks but he isn’t (yet) saying that just saying that someone is cis is inherently harassment. I won’t be surprised if he immediately follows it up with that though, because that’s the way these things tend to go.
Musk said verbatim:
So yes, simply using those words is now grounds for being banned from Twitter as far as Musk is concerned. So whatever you consider “harassment” or not, is irrelevant.
Except Twitter is a hellsite that doesn’t ban people for using slurs