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The BBC reports that the Oxford English Dictionary has added 500 new words for June 2015, including "twerk," a word that has seen use as far back as 1820, when Charles Clairmont wrote that "Germans do allow themselves such twists & twirks of the pen, that it would puzzle any one." The "twerk" spelling was used in 1901.
Other "new" words and phrases include choss, cisgender, depanneur, e-cig, ecotown, fap fap fap, FLOTUS, fo' shizzle, freegan, gimmick ("to mean 'a night out with friends'"), guerrilla ("describing activities carried out in an irregular and spontaneous way"), intersectionality, inukshuk, keener, mangia-cake, meh, SCOTUS, shipping ("the activity of discussing, portraying, or advocating a romantic pairing of two characters who appear in a work of (serial) fiction, esp. when such a pairing is not depicted in the original work"), Special Olympics, stagette, tenderpreneur, twitterati, uncanny valley, voluntourism, webisode, and yarn bombing.
The full list for June 2015 can be found here. Previous OED updates are here. Revisions are made every March, June, September, and December.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @10:45PM
I would go so far as disapproving of the use of cisgender when describing a man. Trans men have different problems for sure, but they have no problem appearing as a man.
Great news! I'll go right ahead and tell my trans* men friends that they'll never again be misgendered. They'll be ecstatic. But, seriously, I honestly don't understand why you have a problem with there existing a word that means "not trans*".
Talking about feminism's views of trans* identities while representing TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists) [wikipedia.org] as the only, or even majority, view within feminism is highly misleading. It would be like reading a newspaper article about egalitarian movements which didn't bother to distinguish MRAs from feminists.