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[–]Sebell 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Not the op of this thread, but one of the things I disliked about GC is the "HE!" comments all the time. (Mods i love you please don't ban me for saying this I'm not a troll).

Look - I 100% understand the philosophy. I fully respect the reasoning, I'll fight for people's rights to misgender (accidentally or philosophically), but it's one of those middle-of-the-road things where I ... I just don't care about pronouns. I have been using they/them for 20 years for both men and women when, in context, the sex of the person in the story isn't central to the story.

I totally get when you can be prosecuted or arrested for misgendering - it becomes much more critical (UK, looking at you). I'm safe in my "MAH FREE SPEACH" American bubble - free speech is a hill Americans WILL DIE ON. I know others aren't as lucky.

The really angry HE HE HE! types of posts actually scare me off and make me not want to participate. And I had more than 10k in karma from GC comments ;)

[–]venecia 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nah don't worry, I'm right there with you. I think people on this new site are a bit more relaxed about there not being any particular dogma as to HOW anti-TRA you have to be. I don't use words like Tim/Tif but I understand why others do. I think removing downvotes on saidit (+ the shock of having our sub deleted!) has really enhanced our unity. I don't see nearly as many comments lecturing others for using the wrong words or being more moderate in their views :)

[–]yishengqingwa666 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)