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Wait what happened?
Those users use neopronouns and apparently for a lot of people it's beyond the limit of their ability to not gatekeep queer people. There was an announcement about it from the admin that was basically "yeah neopronouns are valid, don't misgender anyone period" and several people completely lost their shit and made threads to bitch about it in.
If you don't use the pronouns a user lists in their bio when referring to that user you'll catch a ban. There is a user who has dragon as their pronoun and anyone not using it is being banned.
No. The person you are referring to uses "drag" as pronouns, but is also ok with they/them.
People who can't simply use either of those options, and insist on getting in to a discussion about what identities they think are valid are the folk getting banned.
If you simply ignore the users whose pronouns you find challenging, or use their pronouns and avoid starting/continuing discourse offering your personal opinions about whether or not someone elses identity is valid, there are no bans.
avoid starting/continuing discourse offering your personal opinions about whether or not someone elses identity is valid, there are no bans.
The OP here is literally starting discourse offering their personal opinions about whether or not someone else's identity is valid.
nah, i'm blazing right past that and accepting everyone's identity as valid, the opinion is it's hilarious and entertaining watching pedants twist themselves in knots to absolve themselves of fundamentally queerphobic and exclusionary takes.
you can equate "accept everyone" with "scrutinize and judge" if you like though, it's very helpful when people wave their red flags openly.
Idk I think it's okay rule. Use persons preferred pronouns unless you don't know it then use they/them since it's basically gender neutral.
Part of the drama is people getting in trouble for using they/them, look at the screenshot being used against Gormadt in this very thread.
It's a thorny issue to be sure, but I still struggle to see what's wrong with they/them.
Using they/them when someone asks you not to is a shitty thing to do and should not be acceptable on an instance that’s supposed to be a safe space for queer people.
so many people are willfully missing this very simple point, and it says a lot about how they really think about trans people.
Of course, but it's not clear at all that's what's happening in the screenshot.