Ciscentric
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ciscentric is an adjective meaning (LGBTQ) Centering on or overemphasizing cissexuality and/or cissexual people.
Meaning
(LGBTQ) Centering on or overemphasizing cissexuality and/or cissexual people.
Example Sentences
Obviously, this sentiment is ignoring the fact that the other 51 weeks of the year is essentially just a barrage of heteronormativity and ciscentric "pride" being plastered across society.
I know too much to think any one person responsible for the frightful way these inherently classist, sexist, racist, ciscentric, and appallingly heteronormative systems interact in the world.
Such a universalizing presumption of cissexuality is ciscentric and cissexist because it assumes that the authenticity of femininity is rooted in the female body, that cissexuality is the correct or superior gender identity, and that all 'female' bodies hence yield and are inhabited by female-identified 'women.'
Word Forms
- cis-centric
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cisgenderist, heterocentric, super straight, cisphobic, cishetero, sexualist.
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