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Originally Posted by Direckshun
It's just an odd word, to me.
I was talking to a woman I know and she referred to herself as cisgendered.
I'm like WTF -- all I know is that when -gendered is used as a suffix, it can be weird.
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I'd say that there's still a chance for weirdness. Anyone who uses that word in casual conversation may be straight sexually, but the question remains as to why they'd use such an obscure word. Pretentiousness? Someone who grew up in a family with a huge vocabulary? Someone who is deeply educated in sexual orientation academic literature? It could be anything from the disturbing to the benign.
I always thought it was weird that William F. Buckley Jr. used so many words that most of his readers would have to look up in a dictionary to understand. I never really understood it, but there's probably an obscure word for it.