The Oxford English Dictionary has been loosening its bow-tie in recent years, demonstrating that it’s not afraid to rip off its tweed coat to twerk the night away and just be, like, a total hot mess.
Indeed, it’s just added 500 sexy new entries, including “cisgender” (“Designating a person whose sense of personal identity matches their gender at birth”); “twerk” (to dance “in a sexually provocative manner, using thrusting movements of the bottom and hips while in a low, squatting stance” — ooh-la-la!); and yes, “hot mess” (“A person or thing that is spectacularly unsuccessful or disordered, especially one that is a source of a peculiar fascination.”)
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Noteworthy additions include “meh,” “masshole,” “Twitterati,” and “Fo’ shizzle,” a term we’d hoped would fade from consciousness. Better luck next time, “Left Shark.”
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Any words or terms you’d like Oxford to include next year? (Please note they’ve already written entries for “fierce,” “girlfriend,” and “honey.”)
cchou444
Shamone…..it means hurry up, like come on let’s go……
AndYouWillDeal
ugh…too much tumblr…who, in their right mind, not being an autistic teenager on tumblr trying to be a special snowflake, talks about themselves as “cis gender”?
Arcamenel
Why does the article have miley cyrus as the picture? She didn’t invent twerking, she’s taken credit for something black women have done long before white women even knew what to do with their hips.
@AndYouWillDeal: The term cisgender has existed long before Tumblr you do realize that right?
Giancarlo85
CIS Gender is a term I’ll never use to describe me or anyone else. It’s a stupid term and one that is irrelevant.
aliengod
@Giancarlo85: I think I’m going to faint. We actually agree on something. 😉
Giancarlo85
@aliengod: Maybe if you got over your stupid uneducated political views, we would get somewhere… But for now, I don’t care what you say.
inbama
Transfeminism has so degraded the English language and rational thought that even the Oxford Dictionary has lost it’s mind.
If anything is “assigned at birth,” it’s “Sex” and not “Gender.”
And these days, even that is usually first “assigned” months before birth thanks to ultrasound imagining.
Raphael
@inbama: its gender. the gender is assigned at birtch if the baby has a penis is a “boy” if has a vagina is a “girl”.
NateOcean
Bravo Oxford Dictionary for using the picture of Milie Cyrus to illustrate not one, but all three of the new words: “cisgender” “twerk” and “hot mess”.
Raphael
@Giancarlo85: you entire existence thats irrelevant. lol those stuped cisgender gays… its like if a person is trans we call trans but if the person is cisgender we call what? “normal”? I dont fuck think so.
Raphael
@Arcamenel: ikr?
Giancarlo85
@Raphael: Um… what? I defend trans people more than anyone else here, but cisgender is an unnecessary term. Stop trying to assign labels to people who don’t want to be labeled.
inbama
@Raphael:
“the gender is assigned at birth if the baby has a penis is a “boy” if has a vagina is a “girl”…./”
No Raphael. That’s “sex” or “sexual differentiation.”
Transfeminists have gotten everyone so mixed up with this nonsense, I won’t be surprised when LGBTs take their male dogs to the vet for a hysterectomy.
Avery Alvarez
I never really felt that Miley Cyrus actually twerked.
She did a movement that looks like twerking, but without any of the skill, any of the real POP that goes into it.
Raphael
@Giancarlo85: why the norm wont be labered and the minorities have to? just like with (cisgender) heterosexual people they are the “straight” ones and we’re the homosexuals… get it cisgender gay boy?
da90027
I just googled the word skank and Miley’s pic popped up.
Clark35
Too much tumblr and ‘cisgender’ is a silly word and term that nobody who is actually a woman or man uses to describe themselves.
Bob LaBlah
Damn, baby got back. Miley needs a Mandingo in that ass.
Raphael
Here http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/01/being-called-cis-is-not-oppressive/ this explain why is important the use of the therm “cisgender” for cisgender people.
Raphael
“So why do we say ‘cisgender’ instead of ‘non-transgender?’ Because, referring to cisgender people as ‘non trans’ implies that cisgender people are the default and that being trans is abnormal. Many people have said ‘transgender people’ and ‘normal people,’ but when we say ‘cisgender’ and ‘transgender,’ neither is implied as more normal than the other.”
Wahya73
@Raphael: No actually it’s rude to label people what they don’t label themselves. So you go ahead and be rude, but don’t expect someone to not be offended.