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Edit: I also just got banned for apparently being a troll. Me. Not the person they believe to be a dragon though.
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I'm gonna be honest, y'all kinda fucking dumb lmao.
Let's say drag is a troll. If so, then drag's wanting you to do exactly what you're doing now. You have taken the bait, hook, line and sinker. Congrats! You're helping drag cause problems! To avoid taking the bait, you gotta use drag's pronouns. Do that, and there'll be no drama for drag to stir up.
If drag isn't a troll, then you're just being a dick and intentionally causing drama when you could just use drag's pronouns. By doing so, you'd make drag feel happy and accepted; which would be very progressive of you.
Soooooo..... By posting this, at best you're just feeding a troll and making other trans people question whether or not their pronouns will be respected (no, really, when cis people start drawing lines for trans people, I get extremely uncomfortable; it's not your place to do so, fuck right off), at worst you're being a piece of shit.
Edit: the fucking entitlement of cis people telling trans people how to run their spaces is sickening. I thought Lemmy was supposed to be fairly progressive, yet once again I'm being shown that cis people believe they deserve a voice in something that has nothing to do with them. You don't get to call yourself an ally when you question someone's validity.
You disgust me.
Whatever happened to good ol block button?
That works too.
"The only way to beat trolls is to comply with their every demand and especially stay silent when they get the administrators to enforce their trolling" is an interesting take, and one about as useful to a community as "Just ignore the bullies and they'll go away" is to a child.
The discussion is about people being banned from blahaj, not about whether we want to use these particular pronouns.
I’m sure the dragon user is tickled pink about all the drama, yes, but talking about policy when people are getting banned seems like a good thing to do even that notwithstanding.
YUP. no notes. i see no shortage of “i’m blocking you now” in comment replies to other people. it’s two easy clicks to block a single divisive user. why not drag?
because you all clearly enjoy the drama. you wanted to flex your rejection muscles in the face of clearly stated rules in a community space that was not designed for you. enjoy! yall brought this on yourselves.
You're acting like this is a bunch of posters getting together to dogpile on poor drag instead of a bunch of posters being upset at the actions and statements of the admin.
i’m referring to the drama preceding this, as was the person i was responding to.
i personally also have qualms with the actions of the mods, but i still find it to be hella cringe how so many people saw fit to just feed the situation more and more instead of just leaving it the fuck alone as you and i have.
Ah. No comment on that. Like I said, I've barely even seen drag around lately, much less interacted with them.
thank you for understanding
We're not upset at the mods. We're upset at you.
I know reading comprehension isn't your strong point, but the "bunch of posters" mentioned is quite clearly in the context of those objecting to the admins backing dragonfucking as an identity.
That's heavily ironic. Considering drag has actual comments about this,
If you're going to claim someone has bad reading comprehension maybe don't fuck up your own first? And that's not drag's pronouns, that's drag's name. Maybe you can guess drag's pronouns from this post? (Hint Dragon Rider has it in parenthesis next to their name)
Drag has made REPEATED comments that 'rider' is to be interpreted in both senses.
Dragonfucker is also the literal fucking handle, genius. Jesus H. Christ.
I'm not talking about their pronouns, though I guess that's a distinction that requires a level of literacy several grades higher than you're operating at; I've explicitly stated this multiple times in this thread.
Why. Do you. Caaaaaare?
You don't seem to get it. You don't question someone's identity. Period. No ands, ifs or buts. You do not get to decide if someone's identify is valid. You are an asshole and you are not an ally for doing it.
This is why trans people (at least the ones I know) unironically tend to avoid hanging out with cis people. Cis people think they're entitled to telling other people how they can identify.
I'm sorry for thinking dragons don't exist. I'll go for a struggle session at the first opportunity to repent of my sins.
Literally like talking to children. Throwing a fit over not being called a dragon. Insane.
Christ, you'd lose your mind if you ever stepped into the furry community. The therians would give you an aneurysm.
Once again, you do not get to say whether or not someone's identity is valid. It doesn't matter how "real" you perceive their identity to be. You are a bigot for doing so.
Also, you can literally just block drag and pretend drag doesn't exist. Just don't respond to drag. Don't talk to drag. Don't refer to drag. You could just do that, but instead you've decided to be a bigot.
Mr. Roosevelt, I presume
Could have pretended that people who say "Dragons aren't real" don't exist, but the admin response was instead to ban folk for it. Could've done that, but instead, you've decided to approve of acting like literal children.
So my drunk Republican uncle is actually an attack helicopter? I thought that was just political rhetoric and poor taste hyperbole, but I suppose I should respect his identity and also try to limit my thermal signature and seek heavy cover from above.
If he really and truly does, then yes, especially when he's posting on blahaj.
Someone can call themselves the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. That doesn't make them a democracy. And drag literally told you what to call them. Stop grasping at new ways to be wrong. It's getting ridiculous.
So drag isn't a dragon rider, is what you're saying?
i wish that edit was a pinned post in a lot of communities.
I came to post exactly what you said then duck out, so I'll just add that Lemmy as a whole is fairly progressive but .world is largely centrist Americans, has multiple notable shit stirrers, and a few of them and their alts are already here agreeing with themselves.
So yeah, I'm not surprised this turned into a dumpster fire of " 'brave' cishets pontificating on their standards of pronoun etiquette in trans spaces".