If women accepted the label "cis," do you think TRAs would respect that boundary?

( Omina_Sentenziosa )
No.

They want to be called what we call ourselves. If we used cis, they would call themselves cis. If we called ourselves AFAB, they would call themselves AFAB. They are already doing it. If we invented a new term, they would use that.

They don' t want to be women per se, they want to be us, there' s nowhere we can run to. They' re like stalkers who refuse to leave their victims alone.

( Sheva )
I believe it doesn’t get used much because it’s more commonly used as an underhanded slur and usually on people TRA’s are attacking. I very rarely hear it used in a neutral way. It seems to me that cis is used much like the word mutt. With the same negative intent.

If women actually adopted the word it would eventually completely become a dirty word. The word game will never end. The language will change over and over and each time the words we use will become dirty words. Continually stripping women of their identities helps them push women below them.

Every time someone calls me cis I have a big desire to spit directly in their face. I am a woman. A REAL lesbian woman, not some cheap and tasteless imitation and I refuse to change how I identify or to accept men into those identities no matter how pissy it makes the TRA’s

( tacocat )
No. The entire point of queer theory is to "transcend" and violate boundaries. Any boundary we set immediately becomes their next goal to destroy.

( realityismykink )
Here's what I'm wondering: If TRAs succeed in cancelling every word that's used as a stand-in for "actual woman," wouldn't that leave "TERF" as the only word in their lexicon for "actual woman?" And if that were the case, how much time would it take for TIMs to start calling themselves TERFs?

( VestalVirgin )
Now that's an interesting question!

The problem with TERF is that it is a slur, so if you started a "terf only" toilet, they'd just invade it saying terfs are evil so they are justified, instead of declaring themselves terfs.

Their goal is to prevent women from talking amongst ourselves. Whether society considers them women and lets them into womens' spaces, or considers all women evil and therefore lets males in to control what the women are doing, matters little to them, I wager.