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I didn't chose the cis life, the cis life chose me (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Disclaimer: I thought of this while using this command line. I actually think Celeste and Matrix are good and trans rights are human rights.

Image description: [ First pannel; character turning his back on the Trans flag, Madeline from Celeste and the Matrix movie title screen : "I am not Trans". Second pannel; character hugging a box labeled 'gender': "I enjoy the gender I was assigned at birth." Third pannel; character typing on a laptop with the Arch Linux logo while wearing programming socks. A bubble shows the line on the screen : 'makepkg -cis'. The character says: "When I compile an AUR package, I clean install files, install the program, sync dependencies; in a single line." ]

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (2 children)

makepkg -csi to make you feel like a detective who's installing the newly developed tool that'll crack the case.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

-sci because I enjoy SciFi

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And -sic because I want it as is!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

as well as -isc since it's written in c

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Enhance!

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

How is the Matrix pro-trans? Looks it up

TIL it is now the Wachowski sisters who made the Matrix films.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Also in the 90s estrogen pills that were used by trans people were red.

Also the animatrix had a scene where a robot is being murdered as she asserts that she’s a woman.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was also supposed to be a character who was a different gender in the matrix vs out, but it didn't make it to the final movie

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iirc it was going to be the "not like this" girl

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Her name: Switch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Name checks out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their TV show Sense8 is also really great progressive sci-fi.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Sense8 is the best thing they've made since The Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Matrix is a full on trans allegory. I can recommend Tilly Bridgers "Begin Transmission" book if you want to know more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of other things going on in The Matrix, but I agree that trans allegories are one of them. They really should have been allowed their original concept for the character Switch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also the thing is just steeped in trans metaphor. Consider the agents deadnaming Neo throughout as "Mister Anderson" Ander being intended as the same word part as Androgens, Androgyny or Misandry... Mister Ander Son. The system keeps reinforcing his identity as Man man man.

Go listen back through Morpheus's speech just before he offers a red and blue pill (back in the 90's horomone treatments for trans women came in the form of little red pills)... It's a sci-fi parable for gender roles and dysphoria. Of being forced into a system where oppression isn't seen or heard or touched because almost nobody recognizes it. Only some nebulous but insistant feeling causes you to want to break free, to explore yourself.

And once you break free you no longer have the protection from the system. The system sees you as a threat. You must accept less resources and support outside of whatever small found family and resistance you gather.

Like all scifi parables some of it's metaphor plays second fiddle to making the technical premise work from a narrative perspective...but whenever they start talking about the Matrix consider they are actually saying "The Bioessentialist construct of gender" and you can see a lot of the different facets behind deliberate creative choices.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

All of the allegory went completely over my head, which is not unusual for me. And since I'm cis I have the privilege of not having to think about how gender roles affect me in day to day life. The "red pill" thing does make it pretty funny when you consider how right-wingers, who are super transphobic, took it as their own.

Writing this got me thinking that I hated the term "cis" when I first started hearing it years ago. It just sounded unpleasant, like "sissy" or something. But it's grown on me through repeated usage.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The what? (Not sure if you‘re joking, good for them if true)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is true.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just googled it. Crazy I didnt hear about this. Glad they went for it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know, I don't follow entertainment news that closely or anything, but you'd think I would have heard about it sometime in the last 14 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Cue my conspiracy prone mind: Why would anyone not want us to know that great artists and personalities were trans, hmmmm? Wont have anything to do with pushing traditional family values, right? RIGHT?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was fairly well reported then the first one transitioned, but their relevancy peaked during The Matrix. Also, some people like to maintain some level of private lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good argument. Thanks for sharing.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Also the story, while mostly being a christ allegory, has very very strong themes about self Identity, and being unaware of your true self.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh it's both of them now? I remember when it was just the one. Or did I Mandela effect that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Looks like it was first one, then the other from a google search.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yay -cis

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

yum -cis

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm a gay man who is happily embracing his cis-genderness but I would not shun trans people as the top figure in this graphic is doing. It seems like he's totally averse to even thinking about the concept.

Yet there's a lot of hostility toward cis people being happy about being cis, though we are kind of expected to fully support trans people embracing being trans. And I do - I just want the same sort of respect for being happily cis-gendered. For me, my gayness is about embracing the masculine (in every sense) and loving being born male. I know that gender and sexuality are unique for everyone - so my philosophy is, whatever you wish to be, embrace it fully and love it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hi, I ask this in good faith: what are some examples of how cis people face hostility for being happily cis?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well a couple of times previously I've posted about being happy to be cis, and was immediately downvoted and pounced on by people saying I was bigoted and disrespectful to others. Yet all i was trying to say is, I'm gay and a cis person and I think that should be respected the same as it's expected for me to respect whatever someone else chooses to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's whack when it happens. I think most trans people actually like hearing cis people talk positively about their own gender.

However, context is everything. If a trans person is lamenting about a bad day for dysphoria, they probably don't want to hear about how great it is being cis.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a happy cis person I'll tell you.

Corporations are making some ads aimed at not me.

Some media programs are being made where I'm not the only target audience.

Also some cis writers and performers found they can't hate on trans people without being told some people dont want to hear it and wont give them money or attention anymore.

If I have a child that says they are trans I can't beat them without the potential consequences that come with beating your child for any reason.

It's rough out there /s

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for sharing your experience, I just wanted to convey the declarative cisgenderness of the character in a visual and comical way and this is what came to mind. The whole point of the comic is the makepkg punchline tho, I wasn't trying to make a point of anything...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well of course I get that. I wasn't trying to sound accusatory so much as just my impression of what it looked like. Which is fine because it gave me a feeling of wanting to share, and so - it's not a bad thing! The comic itself is quite good and you have a real talent for it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

What is it called when you don't really care what gender you are? I'm not sure it's binary, because I don't really fully identify with either one and just do whatever I want whenever I want.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Frankly I call it being a human. I love the masculine parts I was born with, but most often, I feel like i'm just a person, bopping along doing whatever I want and not worrying about if I'm being masculine or feminine. I'm just a human absorbing the experience of being alive. I'm a homo-sapiens sexual.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Depends on the granularity you want.

This sounds like you could fit under the "non-binary" umbrella, but there are many subcategories. Maybe genderfluid .

Or maybe you're cis but just don't see a use in following gender-stereotypes.

But in the end, getting lost in labeling is not needed. Just be you. ^-^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The word for not feeling a strong connection to your gender like that would be "cassgender".

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I now have the urge to make cis some sort of required argument for building a project, and make it so deeply embedded in the build pipeline that removing it would require a refactor. Just because I know there is a (hopefully) tiny percentage of people out there that may get offended by it, and I don't have any desire to work with people who get that worked up.

I already intentionally include f-bombs in some of my code comments (to myself) in preparation for the day that someone complains about cursing. My code is meant for reasonable adults, not delicate babies (and I don't expect any Einstein babies to be submitting PRs, though they'd probably have a higher chance of merge than others.....)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

-sic

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