How did you search for it, Rog? Because here's a couple of examples I got using "cisgendered" which are consistent with the common usage and general search results, although "cis man" still got similar results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgenderhttp://www.basicrights.org/uncategorized/trans-101-cisgender/http://queerdictionary.tumblr.com/post/9264228131/cisgender-adjJesus christ, it's not a bigoted term any more than trans* is. It's a specialized word, that's all. Did I use it in a way that can be construed as bigoted? I suppose so, if you're not willing to see that it's about criticizing IDEAS rather than sex or gender (I really do not want to have to start this over again; I've explained it like twice already). Are there people who do use it like that and paint a broad brush over all cis men? Absolutely. I used it poorly to describe what Nigel called the 'tragedy of the oppressor', that's all.
I don't understand its value at all... I don't care if people want to use it, but it seems like a pretty useless label.
"trans" = your inside genetics and outside genetics don't match
"homosexual' = your sexual preference is for the same sex
"cis" = your inside genetics and outside genetics match and your sexual preference is for the opposite sex.
err... the first two I get, the third seems silly to me.
No, that's intersexuality. Which is a difference between your physical and phenotypical sexes (XX and XY are the usual, but you get XXY, etc. and sometimes other things go wrong with the process of making a male, and bodies tend to default to female when that happens). Trans* is that the gender that is culturally expected of your body is not the one you are. Which may or may not have anything at all to do with your junk.
Correct.
Your sexuality has nothing to do with your gender. Cis is not a fancy way of saying heteronormative (heterosexual man born in a male body and a heterosexual woman born in a female body, among other things). It's a way of saying "man born in a male body" and "woman born in a female body". There are cis lesbians and cis gay men and cis heterosexuals, asexual, bisexuals, etc. etc. Cis is a word used to describe one part of the gender sphere or continuum or whatever your preferred word is, that's all.
Jesus christ, it's not a bigoted term any more than trans* is. It's a specialized word, that's all. Did I use it in a way that can be construed as bigoted? I suppose so, if you're not willing to see that it's about criticizing IDEAS rather than sex or gender (I really do not want to have to start this over again; I've explained it like twice already). Are there people who do use it like that and paint a broad brush over all cis men? Absolutely. I used it poorly to describe what Nigel called the 'tragedy of the oppressor', that's all.
Its a word that is worthless as a descriptor, and its common usage is pejorative or bigoted, hence its comparison to Cunt.
Criticise the ideas all you want but as a descriptor language goes the word CIS is never going to be taken as anything other than a slur.
I'm not offended, in fact I'm doing my best to get my head around the concept in a way that is at least more fun and more interesting then the last five pages.
No, the common use is specifically relate to one aspect of gender identity (which is not worthless, actually). That's all. If it were, for all intents and purposes, ONLY a slur, I sure as fuck wouldn't use it.
/cranky
No worries on that score. I am more than a little dense, but once I see reason in something, it takes a lot more than that to get me to change my mind again (as far as the language goes), and I still think Garbo has her shit together. On everything but this one subject.
How? I know I fucked up with the wording and managed to alienate a lot of people, but where specifically is this still tangled?
I'm gonna add that the word "cis" doesn't try to define what "woman" or "man" means to you. Or how you express it. Or what it means in other cultures.
And who the fuck is Jayne Mansfield?
Made a bazillion dollars playing ditzy blond characters. Usually was falling out of her clothes, talking in a high, squeaky voice and crossing her eyes like she had brain trauma. 
It was a long time ago.
http://houseofglambeauty.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/sophia_and_jayne.jpg
THAT GAL! Didn't she have, like, a pink-and-hearts house or something?
