cisboy
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cisboy (plural cisboys)
- (informal) A cisgender man or boy.
- 2016, Nadja Al-Ali, Nicola Pratt, “Positionalities, intersectionalities, and transnational feminism in researching women in post-invasion Iraq”, in Annick T. R. Wibben, editor, Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics, page 93:
- Indeed, the heavy and active involvement of (cis)women soldiers in the torture of prisoners stands in clear contradiction to not only the U.S. military's self-image as the quintessential masculine institution that turns cisboys into cismen, but also seems to falsify feminist scholarship on the foundational role of militarized masculinity in military operations […]
- 2018, Claudia Schwabe, “Pedagogy”, in Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, Lauren Bosc, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, unnumbered page:
- Of course, cisboys and trans girls may also want and obtain these items (and clearly, many do), but representing them as specifically girls' toys overdetermines their location.
- 2019, Rudy Akbarian, quoted in Jorge Paniagua, "Devoted To His Country, Dismissed by Trump", The Pride, 8 February - 21 February 2019, page 5:
- We had a bunch of cis-girls and cis-boys in the unit.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cisboy.