• HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    28 days ago

    Drag is a perfectly fine user.

    Drag is not a tankie. Drag is not a fascist. Drag is not a bigot, not a paedophile, not a scammer, not a rapist, not a billionaire, not any manner of individual that you should be directing your rage toward. Drag is a respectful member of the queer community, like you, like me, or like anyone else. That alone in my books makes a friend, and not an enemy. So what, I had to take ten seconds to connect the pronoun “drag” to what I already know about language?

    I, personally, don’t find it a major inconvenience to show a little kindness. Also, drag is cute, in my opinion.

  • Doom@ttrpg.network
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    27 days ago

    Ay bro who cares.

    If you enjoy debating this stuff find that space.

    If you are bothered by it let it go.

    If someone can’t be weird on the Internet when can they be weird? Like let people do their thing man

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      27 days ago

      Honestly, I didn’t care until the admins got involved. I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned drag in anything other than passing before this. Now that the admins are saying that denying that dragonfucker is a gender or that dragons exist is a removable and bannable offense? Not feeling like sticking around on Blahaj after that, unfortunately.

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        27 days ago

        It’s just not worth it imo. Easy to coexist around and not care

        I bet in regular conversation on the topic of dragons nobody is going to lose their shit about you reminding people a dragon is a mythical creature.

        But if you put it in context of this person it becomes mockery and that’s not cool.

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          I bet in regular conversation on the topic of dragons nobody is going to lose their shit about you reminding people a dragon is a mythical creature.

          But if you put it in context of this person it becomes mockery and that’s not cool.

          Likewise, in regular conversation on the topic of the earth, no one is going to lose their shit over me reminding people the world is round.

          But saying it to a flat-earther, it takes on a very different tone.

          But both of those examples fail to fully encapsulate what is being shown here - these posts in the OP? They’re all from a thread in which drag is not a participant, in a comm where drag is literally banned. This is not even “Don’t tell flat-earthers the earth is round”, this is “Don’t ever suggest that flat-earth isn’t valid”.

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            27 days ago

            don’t make marginalized people be more marginalized. I don’t see how it matters if it happens in another instance if I was spouting hateful rhetoric but didn’t do it here does that keep me safe?

  • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    28 days ago

    Dont let the door hit your ass on the way out! If you think gatekeeping someone else’s identity is acceptable behavior in explicitly trans friendly spaces, then I’ll be happy to have less of you in my feed.

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    27 days ago

    Love how drag lives rent free in your head. Seriously, get a hobby dude, obsessing about a trans person this much is not healthy.

    At any point you could have simply blocked drag, but no, engaging with drag is so much better, isn’t it? Now you’ve made posts upon posts and comments upon comments about how blahaj is weird, about how drag does not deserve to have drag’s pronouns respected, and how admins/mods/whatever on blahaj are bad.

    To what end? To tell the greater user base that your opinion is superior? To make it known that drag is weird and in turn potentially cause drag to be harassed? To have the admins and mods be harassed? To have individual users with non-standard pronouns harassed?

    You say you don’t care and wish Blahaj well, but your posts and comments say otherwise. My friend, it might not have been your goal, but your posts and comments are rather inciting in nature, people will get harassed because of you.

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    27 days ago

    I mean, I’m a Taurus, a gamer (ttrpg kind, i don’t use the gamer word), and identify more with cats than dogs, but none of that is gender related nor gets it’s own pronouns. heck I’m a transhumanist so i fully get the desire to not be human, but its all a little dumb imo ┐(シ)┌

    That said, i just ignored the guy you’re talking about and enjoyed more interesting conversations. Like the topic of pronouns in general! We absolutely could use better ones

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    28 days ago

    I knew Blahaj was never ‘for’ me, but I always felt comfortable here. Guess that’s over. Ada and the admins have the right to cultivate the community they want to see on Blahaj, and I wish them the best of luck going forward.

    I’m going to miss 196 and Femcelmemes, but… well, Blahaj isn’t for me, since I don’t acknowledge ‘dragonfucker’ as a gender.

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      28 days ago

      (Not sure if I’m supposed to say this yet but screw it):

      If it’s any consolation, for a good handful of weeks we’ve been planning on moving 196 to lemmy.world ASAP… but to tell you the truth I’m not sure how soon that will be. It’s tricky, but we’re working with the admins of both instances to figure it out.

      Edit to clarify: We’re not moving because of the “neopronouns” thing.

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          28 days ago

          I’ve had some bad run-ins with Lemmy.world mods, certainly, but the admins seem overall fine, if amateurish. They generally take into account feedback and try to provide the full rundown of any actions taken. When one of the admins crossed a line of participation/moderation/administration in the recent vegan cats debacle, they chose to clarify and have the admin admit wrongdoing.

          Far from perfect, but they’re tolerable.

    • Python@programming.dev
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      28 days ago

      fyi, dragonfucker is banned from 196 too. I think the moderators are pretty fair in yeeting people for being rude, regardless of opinions on gender and the like

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      28 days ago

      I’m sad that one user has caused so much trouble for so many people on here. I don’t get the current situation at all, as it’s small potatoes compared to the myriad of transphobes and tankies from other instances. I don’t often block users, but I don’t see how this issue isn’t just tied to a single one who would be better off blocked.

      I don’t get how wider political discussions get roped into personal problems. If a person was a really nice “dragonfucker,” I don’t know if we’d be having this conversation. It’s fine to dislike a person without seeing them as immoral or a political enemy.

      I’ll be sad to see you go, especially over this 😞