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See, if you read between the lines, a lot of people parse "cis woman" as "woman who is biologically female".

What's the issue with this? Well, think about it. "Biologically female" is a fuzzy concept, you know this because of the memes where they epicly own the terfs by pointing out that attempting to nail down a clear definition leads to failure points such as excluding post-menopausal women, or infertile women, or any variety of obvious women depending on the "clever" new definition of "biological female" being deployed.

This is a problem that we've already resolved. Recall the acronym "AFAB", which colloquially means "biologically female" because precise terminology is doomed forever. It stands for "assigned female at birth", which if you scrutinize the word choice a bit, has some interesting choices:

"Assigned": This word implies that the process described is not, in fact, a naturalistic or automatic process. Assignments are typically performed by someone who holds power in a hierarchial structure, on a subject of lower standing in the hierachy.

"At birth": This word choice describes that the assignment is a one-time event, rather than an empirical quality of the individual.

From this, we can infer that the "female" being assigned here is in fact a socially constructed categorization, and implicitly, the same thing applies to the "AMAB" acronym.

What does this mean, in practice? It means that a baby will be provided with one of these assignments at birth. The assignment will be recorded and enforced systemically, and perceived deviations from the assignment have, in general, been pathologized because the assignment is prescriptive rather than descriptive.

Now, what is a cis person?

A cis person, at the most basic level, is someone who complies with the assignment.

Cisnormativity is the social mechanism coercing you to comply with the assignment, demanding justification for any act that deviates from that assignment, whether that's refusing "corrective" procedures for an intersex person, or transitioning.

which means the coffee is HORRIBLY underextracted which normally makes your cup taste like the absolute worst decaf you've ever had

but, see, it's warm, and warm makes things smell more. so you've got this EXTREMELY powerful red wine smell, with pure ethanol vapor entering your nose, and some god-awful underextracted almost-coffee smell all mixing together

if you push through the smell and manage to actually imbibe some of this curséd brew, there will be a voice

in the back of your head

saying

"oh huh this actually doesn't taste that bad"

and the voice is RIGHT, but only temporarily

you have two options, really. let it sit for a bit and really savor that surprisingly nice flavor before swallowing (MISTAKE) or understand that that voice will lead to naught but despair and choke it down before the tonic turns on you because it WILL oh my god it will.