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Huh, wow. I guess I had the ability to generate impressive comment numbers all along! I promise I won't use this power for evil. Back to complaining about grad school and updates on silly side-projects.

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Not to worry, other people have the propagation of evil already cornered.

Kind of how I felt when all my posts generated 1-2 comments, and then I made a throwaway post about the LJ election and got 95. Wait what? (Ketchup cake? 40.)

Hurray for updates on silly side projects! Those are great, even if I don't often have anything useful to add.

You got a "LOL" out of

jwz. That is an impressive commenting superpower.

A purely sarcastic "LOL", but it was one nonetheless. Heh.

It's true. Post a long, thoughtful philosophical argument? Two comments. Post something off the cuff about your cat? 83280183 comments.

This is the internet. We don't read words here. >:3

The form was sarcastic, but I think the intent was sincere. That's how I took it anyway.

I hadn't heard about the term until

neuro42 complained about it in

caladri's LJ. Is it fairly new, or perhaps an old term gaining a more widespread use?

Pretty much.

Fairly new, yeah. I first saw it... 4 years ago, maybe? I have no idea when it was coined, could have been decades ago. Unless you follow trans issues, you'd never come across it.

I won't have anything new on that front until I've picked up packages in Seattle this weekend, and then a couple days to actually DO something with the new parts. :)

Oh wow, I hadn't noticed that thread before (it happened after I read the post). That makes last night's thread idiocy make so much more sense (in, well, a relative way).

I'm not sure how old the term is, but it's definitely gaining more widespread use. A few years or so?

Surprisingly, it's attested at least back to 1994, but yeah, it's grown in popularity of late.

Primarily due to Serano's "Whipping Girl", which reached an audience beyond the trans community and their close partners, istr.

Wow. 15 years old. Do you happen to know offhand when "transgender" was first attested?

No, but I Have The Technology: the OED gives '1974 D. CORDELL in Rep. First National TV.TS Conf. 16 There is a tendency among trans-gender people to encourage each other. This precludes the very careful self-analysis which must take place in everyone who is proposing to undergo this therapy.' and '1983 K. E. STUART Uninvited Dilemma iii. 25 Gender conditions are quite different from sexual conditions or sexual preferences. The word transsexual is somewhat misleading, because the word sexual is incorporated into the term. Perhaps the word ‘transgender’ would have been a more suitable term.'

(n.b. 'cisgender' is not in the OED at all, its date is from wikipedia)

Thanks!

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